Spiderwasp or Literary Criticism

SPAHR, Juliana

Spectacular Books

Poetry. Dictionary.com defines theophany as "A  manifestation of God to man by actual appearance, usually as an  incarnation." THE GARDEN provides such action in a dramatic lyric work  which is highly conscious of its literary context, but is compelling  in its treatment of life and death, love and gardens. "there is  despair/ a yellow sickness on our surfaces/ Yet we shall not survive  to vengeance/ or authentic anguish/ it is over/ us in saying naught do  not/ our surface wrinkles but it is no depth/ this moment to the next  is not our death/ Notice that I/ am dead" ("A Mask Beginning: Enter  Chorus (Who Is M) Singing: [Early Asking of the Sun]").  Saddlestapled  chapbook.

The Garden. A Theophany Or Ecco Home A Dialectical Lyric

Corliss-Smith, Martin

<p>Poetry. Poetics. SEAMLESS ANTILANDSCAPE constitutes the engagement of a major American writer with a major critic of contemporary experimental writing. Leslie Scalapino includes poetry, essay and commentary in this critique of Marjorie Perloff's critique of Scalapino and other's work. This controversial and important document of current poetic and critical practice is part of Katy Lederer's Spectacular Chapbook Series which also includes the popular SPIDERWASP OR LITERARY CRITICSM by Juliana Spahr (still available). Many titles by Leslie Scalapino are available from SPD, including, most recently, THE PUBLIC WORLD / SYNTACTICALLY IMPERMANENCE and NEW TIME both from Wesleyan. Stapled Chapbook.</p>

Seamless Antilandscape

Literature & Fiction

Scalapino, Leslie

Poetry

The Beginner

Lyn Hejinian

Poetry. "Michael Scharf has produced a carefully unbeautiful and tough-minded meditation on the meaning of the word "freedom" in the years after 9/11, a ventriloquistic tour de force that recreates the paranoia of high theory, the detournements of downtown, and the panicky helplessness that expressed itself by the endless inventorying of loss, of death, of corporate and material conditions. But it is ventriloquism, a commentary on the inside as well as the outside of that moment. It is what Debord might have written if Debord had had a sense of humor. But though the moral laminate of irony is thick, experientially, and in the perverse end, this bristly and formally imaginative prose object is honest, tender, and beautiful"--Louis Menand.

For Kid Rock/Total Freedom

Scharf, Michael

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