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by Ron Silliman (Author)
Bernstein is correct: in order to understand the discourse represented by these books, we must indeed learn to read and count differently. . . . Every essay [is] participating in the "symposium of the whole." {Together] they are the product of the most serious attempt in recent years to construct a poetic "community" in the margins of the old mainstream/avant-garde cultural topographies. -- Paul Mann
Author Biography
Ron Silliman has written and edited forty books of poetry, critical theory, and memoir, most recently The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Letters: Selected 1970s Correspondence of Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, and Ron Silliman. His work has been translated into sixteen languages. Silliman's anthology In the American Tree is the definitive gathering of language writing. His own poetry is included in The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry, The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Poems for the Millennium, Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, and Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing. Among his awards, Silliman received the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation in 2010, a Pew Fellowship, grants from the California and Pennsylvania Arts Councils, and two literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.
