The Front Matter, Dead Souls

This extraordinary new book is essay-fiction-poetry, an experiment in form, "a serial novel for publication in the...
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Author: Leslie Scalapino
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Language: English
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The Front Matter, Dead Souls by Scalapino, Leslie

The Front Matter, Dead Souls

€17,91

The Front Matter, Dead Souls

€17,91
Author: Leslie Scalapino
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

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.

Author: Leslie Scalapino
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 03/01/1996
Pages: 103
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 8.49h x 5.53w x 0.34d
ISBN: 9780819562951


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/22/1996 pg. 68
Booklist 03/01/1996 pg. 1118

About the Author
LESLIE SCALAPINO is the author of numerous books of poetry, essays, and plays, as well as the novel Dafoe (Sun and Moon,1994). Among her books of poetry are way (1988), that they were at the beach- aeolotropic series (1985), and Considering how exaggerated music is (1982), all published by North Point Press. Leslie Scalapino has taught most recently at Bard College and the Naropa Institute.


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