The Front Matter, Dead Souls

di Leslie Scalapino (Autore)

University Press of New England, 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.

• Autore: Leslie Scalapino
• Editore: University Press of New England
• Anno: 1996
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 103 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• EAN: 9780819562951

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