A Community Writing Itself
Conversations with Vanguard Writers of the Bay Area
1st Edition
Published on 6. April 2010
420 pages
978-1-56478-620-3 (ISBN)
Description
A Community Writing Itself features internationally respected writers Michael Palmer, Nathaniel Mackey, Leslie Scalapino, Brenda Hillman, Kathleen Fraser, Stephen Ratcliffe, Robert Gluck, and Barbara Guest, and important younger writers Truong Tran, Camille Roy, Juliana Spahr, and Elizabeth Robinson. The book fills a major gap in contemporary poetics, focusing on one of the most vibrant experimental writing communities in the nation. The writers discuss vision and craft, war and peace, race and gender, individuality and collectivity, and the impact of the Bay Area on their work.
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Content
- Intro
- Also by Sarah Rosenthal
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- KATHLEEN FRASER: Placing Silence
- ROBERT GLÜCK: A Community Writing Itself
- BARBARA GUEST: Clearing the Ordinary from the Room
- BRENDA HILLMAN: Our Very Greatest Human Thing Is Wild
- NATHANIEL MACKEY: The Atmosphere Is Alive
- MICHAEL PALMER: The Recovery of Language
- STEPHEN RATCLIFFE: Artifice and Accident
- ELIZABETH ROBINSON: Falling Is the Safest Thing to Do
- CAMILLE ROY: Experience Is a Demanding Mistress
- LESLIE SCALAPINO: Messing Up Linear Time
- JULIANA SPAHR: How Does the Work Get Used
- TRUONG TRAN: I Became the Other
- Notes
- Works Cited
- About the Author
