Language Writing
Jerome McGann, 15 October 1987
In the American Tree: Language, Poetry, Realism
by Ron Silliman.
National Poetry Foundation, 628 pp., $34.50, June 1986,0 915032 33 3 Show More
by Ron Silliman.
National Poetry Foundation, 628 pp., $34.50, June 1986,
‘Language’ Poetries: An Anthology
by Douglas Messerli.
New Directions, 184 pp., $19.95, March 1987,0 8112 1006 5 Show More
by Douglas Messerli.
New Directions, 184 pp., $19.95, March 1987,
“... important and influential of these new American writers. The anthologies edited by Silliman and Douglas Messerli contain a great deal of unpleasant and difficult poetry – for example, this passage from David Melnick’s Pcoet which Silliman prints: seta colecc puilse, i canoe it spear heieo as Rea, cinct pp pools we sly drosp Geianto (o ... ”