Poetry. "Only a feminist could have seen the point at which the form of the journal and the tradition of the American longpoem meet. Infusing each with the critical introspection of psychoanalysis, this first volume of A READING challenges every myth surrounding Literature. Its shape that of one life intensely witnessed, A READING proves that poetry can still be an act of extraordinary courage, intellectual honesty, and commitment to humankind" -Ron Silliman.

A Reading 1-7

Literature & Fiction

Dahlen, Beverly

Poetry

Momo's

by Beverly Dahlen ISBN 0-925904-08-2 1992, poetry, 152 pages $12

A Reading 8-10

Chax Press

Poetry. A READING (11-17). " A READING manifests a generic singularity, an absolutely specific human presence which could at the same time be interchanged with anyone...Writing and reading are both acts of relation, problematically focused on the object that comes in between - an object made of words, which might be conduit or barrier or mute altar"-Geoffrey O'Brien.

A Reading 11-17

Potes & Poets Press

Poetry. A READING 18-20 continues Beverly Dahlen's remarkable serial poem and its ever-shifting reading of the world, other texts, other people. At times like a diary in fragments, the work herein shifts between serious philosophical engagement and thoroughly contemporary lyric, with shards of autobiography and personal reflection thrown in to create a polyvalent text that touches many tonal registers. "In a world where the lunatic fringe becomes the entire cloth, language becomes an incoherent agent of the State. But A READING 18-20 makes something legible that exceeds that agent's grasp, something words didn't make, something really here, with us, under the erasure of the world that is our world. This installment of Beverly Dahlen's great long poem continues her ongoing work of deciphering the sacrifice we've made of our lives to a world undone by the need for belief in the coherence of system"-Rob Halpern. "There's a sphinx-like allure to the work of Beverly Dahlen, she intuits so much we haven't yet fathomed. Reading to write, writing through reading, her syncretic epistemology takes on mother, father, erasure, identity, philosophy, philology, history, war, the 'local' in parallel readings/queries of Engels, Derrida, Kristeva, Watten, Spicer, others.These three very different sections of A READING 18-20 are long overdue in book form, and will be in the hands of all my students soon. This book is a survival, a summons. Brava, Beverly, brava!"-Anne Waldman.

A Reading 18-20

Instance Press

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A Reading 1-7

A Reading 8-10

A Reading 11-17

A Reading 18-20