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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786248603321

Autore

Scalapino Leslie

Titolo

It's go in horizontal [[electronic resource] ] : selected poems, 1974-2006 / / Leslie Scalapino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Collana

New California poetry

Disciplina

811/.54

Soggetti

Poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; COLLECTED IN: Considering how exaggerated music is; FROM: hmmmm in The Woman Who Could Read the Minds of Dogs; Instead of an Animal; FROM: This eating and walking at the same time is associated all right; Considering how exaggerated music is; How Phenomena Appear to Unfold: Note on My Writing, 1985; that they were at the beach; FROM: that they were at the beach - aeolotropic series; A sequence; FROM: chameleon series; FROM: The Return of Painting, The Pearl, and Orion/A Trilogy; FROM: the Five Series Poem way, 3 Series in Sequence; Bum Series; The Floating Series

Delay SeriesHow Phenomena Appear to Unfold; Fin de Siècle 1; Fin de Siècle 2; Fin de Siècle 3; FROM: Crowd and not evening or light; FROM: New Time; FROM: The Front Matter, Dead Souls; The Public World/Syntactically Impermanence; FROM: Resting lightning that's night, Friendship; Zither & Autobiography; FROM: Zither; FROM: The Tango; FROM: It's go in/quiet illumined grass/land; Day Ocean State of Stars' Night; FROM: 'Can't' is 'Night'; FROM: The Forest Is in the Euphrates River; FROM: DeLay Rose; Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

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,