Modern and Contemporary Poetics Ser.: The Alphabet by Ron Silliman (2008, Trade
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Modern and Contemporary Poetics Ser.: The Alphabet by Ron Silliman (2008, Trade
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Literary Movement
- Modernism
- ISBN
- 9780817354930
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
ISBN-10
081735493X
ISBN-13
9780817354930
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3038436054
Product Key Features
Edition
2
Book Title
Alphabet
Number of Pages
952 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
General, American / General
Genre
Poetry
Book Series
Modern and Contemporary Poetics Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
2.2 in
Item Weight
50.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-038309
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Ron Silliman's ongoing long poem The Alphabet . . . mingles quotidian observation, linguistic-philosophical reflection, and street-level social critique to produce as vivid, systemic, and cumulatively moving an account of contemporary life as any poet now writing." -- Times Literary Supplement, "Ron Silliman's ongoing long poem The Alphabet . . . mingles quotidian observation, linguistic-philosophical reflection, and street-level social critique to produce as vivid, systemic, and cumulatively moving an account of contemporary life as any poet now writing." — Times Literary Supplement, "Ron Silliman's ongoing long poem The Alphabet . . . mingles quotidian observation, linguistic-philosophical reflection, and street-level social critique to produce as vivid, systemic, and cumulatively moving an account of contemporary life as any poet now writing." - Times Literary Supplement
Dewey Decimal
811/.54
Synopsis
The Alphabet is a remarkable and notorious literary achievement, decades in the making, one continually debated, discussed, and imitated since fragments first appeared in the 1970s. Consisting of twenty-six smaller books, one for each letter of the alphabet, it employs language in ways that are startling and innovative. Over the course of the three decades during which it has appeared--in journals, magazines, and as stand-alone volumes--its influence has been wide-ranging, both on practicing poets and on critics who have had to contend with the way it has changed the direction of American poetry. Ron Silliman, a founder of the language poetry movement in the 1960s and one of its most dedicated and acclaimed practitioners, has deployed in The Alphabet the full range of formal and linguistic experiments for which he is known. The Alphabet is a work of American ethnography, a cultural collage of artifacts, moments, episodes, and voices--historical and private--that capture the dizzying evolution of America's social, cultural, and literary consciousness., A remarkable and notorious literary achievement The Alphabet --decades in the making, continually debated, discussed, and imitated since fragments first appeared in the 1970s. Consisting of twenty-six smaller books, one for each letter of the alphabet, it employs language in ways that are startling and innovative. Over the course of the three decades during which it has appeared--in journals, magazines, and as stand-alone volumes--its influence has been wide-ranging, both on practicing poets and on critics who have had to contend with the way it has changed the direction of American poetry. Ron Silliman, a founder of the language poetry movement in the 1960s and one of its most dedicated and acclaimed practitioners, has deployed in The Alphabet the full range of formal and linguistic experiments for which he is known. The Alphabet is a work of American ethnography, a cultural collage of artifacts, moments, episodes, and voices--historical and private--that capture the dizzying evolution of America's social, cultural, and literary consciousness.
LC Classification Number
PS3569.I445A78 2008
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