The Front Matter, Dead Souls (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Wesleyan University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 1996
First published:	March 1996
Authors:	Leslie Scalapino
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	103
ISBN-13:	978-0-8195-6295-1
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8195-6295-5
Barcode:	9780819562951

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