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Offers insights into the history of the movement and discusses the political and theoretical implications of the writing. This book providesreadings of work by Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman, and Charles Bernstein, among many others, and compares it to a wide range of other contemporary and modern American poetry.

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"[An] excellent critical study of language writing and its place in literary history... Perelman delivers a Rosetta Stone which will be invaluable to those seeking a clearer understanding of the movement's origins, theories, and goals."--Poetry Room

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments1The Marginalization of Poetry32Language Writing and Literary History113Here and Now on Paper: The Avant-garde Particulars of Robert Grenier384Parataxis and Narrative: The New Sentence in Theory and Practice595Write the Power: Orthography and Community796Building a More Powerful Vocabulary: Bruce Andrews and the World (Trade Center)967This Page Is My Page, This Page Is Your Page: Gender and Mapping1098An Alphabet of Literary History1449A False Account of Talking with Frank O'Hara and Roland Barthes in Philadelphia156Notes167Index183

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 28/07/1996
      ISBN13: 9780691021386, 978-0691021386
      ISBN10: 0691021384
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      Literature: history and criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers insights into the history of the movement and discusses the political and theoretical implications of the writing. This book providesreadings of work by Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman, and Charles Bernstein, among many others, and compares it to a wide range of other contemporary and modern American poetry.

      Trade Review
      "[An] excellent critical study of language writing and its place in literary history... Perelman delivers a Rosetta Stone which will be invaluable to those seeking a clearer understanding of the movement's origins, theories, and goals."--Poetry Room

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments1The Marginalization of Poetry32Language Writing and Literary History113Here and Now on Paper: The Avant-garde Particulars of Robert Grenier384Parataxis and Narrative: The New Sentence in Theory and Practice595Write the Power: Orthography and Community796Building a More Powerful Vocabulary: Bruce Andrews and the World (Trade Center)967This Page Is My Page, This Page Is Your Page: Gender and Mapping1098An Alphabet of Literary History1449A False Account of Talking with Frank O'Hara and Roland Barthes in Philadelphia156Notes167Index183

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