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The Front Matter, Dead Souls

Leslie Scalapino

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  • 103 sidor
  • 1996
Leslie Scalapino is widely regarded as one of the best avant-garde writers in America today. This extraordinary new book is essay-fiction-poetry, an experiment in form, "a serial novel for publication in the newspaper" that collapses the distinction between documentary and fiction. Loosely set in Los Angeles, the book scrutinizes our image-making, producing extreme and vivid images-hyena, Muscle Beach in Venice, the Supreme Court, subway rides-in order for them to be real. Countering contemporary trends toward interiority, Scalapino's work constitutes a unique effort to "be" objectively in the world. The writing is an action, a dynamic push to make intimacy in the public realm. She does not distinguish between poetry and "real events": her writing is analogous to Buddhist notions of dreaming one is a butterfly, and becoming aware that actually being the butterfly is as real as dreaming it.
  • Författare: Leslie Scalapino
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780819562951
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 103
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1996-04-01
  • Förlag: Wesleyan University Press