false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174463104m/404569.jpg 404569 3 Between the Age of Innocence and the Age of Experience comes <i>The </i><i>Age of Huts. </i>This book brings together for the first time all of the poems in Ron Silliman's <i>Age of Huts </i>cycle, including <i>Ketjak, Sunset </i> <i>Debris, The Chinese Notebook, </i>and <i>2197, </i>as well as two key satellite texts, <i>Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps, </i>and <i>BART. </i>Each poem offers a radically different approach toward using language to explore the world. One of the founding works of Language Poetry, <i>The Age of </i><i>Huts </i>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 <i>Ketjak, </i>one of the first poems to employ "the new sentence," to <i>2197, </i>a serial work that scrambles the vocabulary and grammar of its sentences, <i>The </i> <i>Age of Huts </i>questions everything we have known about poetry in order to see the world anew. 1182361 1986 The Age of Huts (compleat) (New California Poetry) total:59|5:37|4:16|3:5|2:0|1:1| 59 265 107 12 5 1 false false Wed May 07 11:26:33 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 11:32:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 04 09:55:08 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 26 15:06:15 -0800 2007 distance becomes real"

And the syntax multiplies and becomes more. About distances: the flex and stretch. Whose? I keep thinking. Phasing between word and world, text and metatext. I love that it ends on the fatiguing momentum of BART.
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I know Silliman has written work based on the Fibonacci sequence - this text might be the one, I can't remember. Either way, he plays with rhythm.]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 17 11:31:16 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 17 11:32:20 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Sat Sep 15 17:56:35 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 15 18:06:10 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 12 08:40:57 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 17:13:16 -0700 2007 THIS blog was written during a read of this book.]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 09 17:52:34 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 17:55:40 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Nov 15 12:06:55 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 12:06:58 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 11 08:55:27 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 08:55:27 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sat Nov 14 15:53:40 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 22 19:17:42 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 14 15:53:40 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 23 18:51:33 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 18:51:36 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Sep 06 12:57:11 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 12:57:11 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Aug 20 10:09:33 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 10:09:42 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jul 15 21:17:47 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 21:17:47 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Apr 23 23:51:31 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 23:51:31 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=404569