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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.
Price: $26.95
Pages: 257
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: New California Poetry
Publication Date:
08 April 2008
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520254626
Format: Paperback
“Scalapino is shown in this welcome overview to have developed a distinctive idiom.”
Leslie Scalapino teaches at Mills College and is a former faculty member at Milton Avery Graduate Program of the Arts at Bard College, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. Among her many books are Day Ocean State of Star's Night: Poems and Writings 1989 and 1999-2006, Dahlia's Iris: Secret Autobiography and Fiction, and Zither and Autobiography.
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 are associated all right
Considering how exaggerated music is
How Phenomena Appear to Unfold: Note on My Writing
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 Series
How 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
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 are associated all right
Considering how exaggerated music is
How Phenomena Appear to Unfold: Note on My Writing
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 Series
How 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