Between the Age of Innocence and the Age of Experience comes The Age of Huts. This book brings together for the first time all of the poems in Ron Silliman's Age of Huts cycle, including Ketjak, Sunset Debris, The Chinese Notebook, and 2197, as well as two key satellite texts, Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps, and BART. Each poem offers a radically different approach toward using language to explore the world. One of the founding works of Language Poetry, The Age of Huts is about everything, more or less literally, as each sentence, even each phrase, embarks on its own narrative, linking together to form a large polyphonic investigation of contemporary life. From Ketjak, one of the first poems to employ "the new sentence," to 2197, a serial work that scrambles the vocabulary and grammar of its sentences, The Age of Huts questions everything we have known about poetry in order to see the world anew.
Author(s): Ron Silliman
Edition: 1
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 324
Contents
......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Ketjak......Page 14
Sunset Debris......Page 116
The Chinese Notebook......Page 160
2197......Page 192
I Am Marion Delgado......Page 194
I Meet Osip Brik......Page 204
Rhizome......Page 208
Winter Landscape with Skaters and a Bird Trap......Page 219
The Joy of Physics......Page 229
San Francisco Destroyed by Fire......Page 233
The Four Protozoas......Page 244
Turk Street News......Page 254
Invasion of the Stalinoids......Page 258
Allied Gardens......Page 269
The Scheme of Things......Page 279
Considerations of Representability......Page 283
Do City......Page 294
Satellite Texts......Page 304
Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps......Page 306
BART......Page 313
