| It's Go in Horizontal: Selected Poems, 1974-2006 Volume 22 Contributor(s): Scalapino, Leslie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520254627 ISBN-13: 9780520254626 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $26.68 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2008 Annotation: "A solitary, an original. What other way could there be for someone with a mind so electric, independent and restless except out into the space-time conundrum? Because she is thoroughly modern, every moment of experience is interrupted and unstable, accompanied by introspection and sidelong glimpses at the social. The poet here is a horrified witness, a perpetual child, a sexually alert female who keeps looking back to believe what she has seen. This is a superb and important contribution to philosophy, theology, psychology, and the science of knowing. To have the selection here now, to be able to see the whole trajectory in one volume, is to experience a revolutionary moment."--Fanny Howe "I hesitate to introduce any such term as 'meditation' or 'reflection, ' because this work is not apart from its thinking and/or composition, so to speak-and that, among other things, constitutes its exceptional value. I find the whole work to be a deeply engaging preoccupation with, and articulation of, what life might be said, factually, to be. But not as a defined subject, nor even a defining one-but as one being one. That is an heroic undertaking, or rather, place in which to work/write/live. Its formal authority is as brilliant as any I know."--Robert Creeley |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2007050133 |
| Series: New California Poetry (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 6.05" W x 8.93" (0.80 lbs) 257 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Internationally recognized as one of the most innovative writers in America today, Leslie Scalapino persistently challenges the boundaries of many forms in which she works--poetry, prose, plays, and more. This outstanding volume includes work from sequential and serial poems written over thirty-two years. The poems demonstrate ideas and inventions in writing, and how one writing invention leads to the next. Three series are selected from the long poem way, about which Philip Whalen said, She makes everything take place in real time, in the light and air and night where all of us live, everything happening at once. Recent poems, such as those from DeLay Rose, appear to leave the page itself as a single infinite line in which the actions of individuals and occurrences in the outside world are synonymous, mysterious, and simultaneous. It's go in horizontal is a dazzling entryway into the oeuvre of a daring and powerful writer. |