Zone: Correlations 1973 2021

Watten, Barrett

ISBN 10: 1946104604 / ISBN 13: 9781946104601

Verlag: Chax Press, 2025

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Inhaltsangabe:

An essential practitioner of the Language movement, Barrett Watten has spent a lifetime writing works that lay bare the way language creates and is created by the swirling social, cultural, and political world we live in. In this monumental collection he creates long “correlative” works (collating disparate texts, his own and others’) that react to, depict, and theorize our present drastic moment. Line by line, sentence by sentence, they deliver great power and seriousness of intent. — Norman Fischer

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Barrett Watten’s concept of “zone” has many sources. One extends back to his boyhood in Taiwan, a zone of its own, poised between China and Japan, with sea all around. That early space between has a bearing on his lifelong exploration of zones of thought, zones of language, zones of conflict. As a poet, he emerges out of Robert Creeley, Ted Berrigan, Joanne Kyger, and Anselm Hollo, onward to Robert Grenier and Clark Coolidge, Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky, and into community with the Language poets and their theoretical biographies around a Grand Piano. He moves through various frames or z

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Titel: Zone: Correlations 1973 2021
Verlag: Chax Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket