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The Age of Huts (Compleat)
Ron Silliman
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Description for The Age of Huts (Compleat)
Paperback. Brings together all of the poems in auhtor's Age of Huts cycle, including Ketjak, Sunset Debris, The Chinese Notebook, and 2197, as well as two key satellite texts, Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps, and BART. This title questions everything we have known about poetry in order to see the world anew. Series: New California Poetry. Num Pages: 324 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 204 x 25. Weight in Grams: 410.
Between the Age of Innocence and the Age of Experience comes The Age of Huts. This book brings together for the first time all of the poems in Ron Silliman's Age of Huts cycle, including Ketjak, Sunset Debris, The Chinese Notebook, and 2197, as well as two key satellite texts, Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps, and BART. Each poem offers a radically different approach toward using language to explore the world. One of the founding works of Language Poetry, The Age of Huts is about everything, more or less literally, as each sentence, even each phrase, embarks on its own ... Read more
Between the Age of Innocence and the Age of Experience comes The Age of Huts. This book brings together for the first time all of the poems in Ron Silliman's Age of Huts cycle, including Ketjak, Sunset Debris, The Chinese Notebook, and 2197, as well as two key satellite texts, Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps, and BART. Each poem offers a radically different approach toward using language to explore the world. One of the founding works of Language Poetry, The Age of Huts is about everything, more or less literally, as each sentence, even each phrase, embarks on its own ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
Series
New California Poetry
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520250161
SKU
V9780520250161
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About Ron Silliman
Ron Silliman is the author of more than twenty volumes of poetry. His most recent books include Woundwood, Under Albany, MultiPlex, and N/O.and the weblog "Silliman's Blog" (ronsilliman.blogspot.com).
Reviews for The Age of Huts (Compleat)
"For readers who have not read Silliman before, The Age of Huts is a fine place to start."
David Huntsperger Rain Taxi "In Silliman's hands, language-so often manipulated for political coercion and economic gain-is restored to its most mechanical, primal functions, upending our ideas of the poem and of the sentence, and reawakening us to what it is we're ... Read more
David Huntsperger Rain Taxi "In Silliman's hands, language-so often manipulated for political coercion and economic gain-is restored to its most mechanical, primal functions, upending our ideas of the poem and of the sentence, and reawakening us to what it is we're ... Read more