Progress/Under Erasure

Watten, Barrett

ISBN 10: 1931243689 / ISBN 13: 9781931243681

Published by Green Integer, 2004

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Synopsis:

This volume brings together two collections of poetry, the previously published Progress (published to critical acclaim in 1985) and Under Erasure, a new work by one of the major figures of the San Francisco "Language" poetry scene of the 1970s and 1980s. "Progress in writing politics," wrote Andrew Ross of the first work. Robert Creeley noted of Watten: "He has done what I had begun to think impossible...made articulate and accessible the decisive activity of our present writing.

Synopsis: NEW EDITION OF TWO INNOVATIVE LONG POEMS BY ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN POETS ASSOCIATED WITH LANGUAGE WRITING PROGRESS/UNDER ERASURE re-presents in a new edition two innovative long poems by one of the best known poets and critics associated with "Language" writing. Upon its original publication in 1985, Progress was greeted with enthusiasm and public debate. Its linguistically charged, emotionally relentless and culturally reflexive non-narrative form was pitched against the media saturation and political banality of the Reagan era. If Progress is a non-narrative directed toward the end of history, Under Erasure (published in a limited edition in 1991) was written during its purported realisation at the end of the Cold War in 1989, an event it records.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Progress/Under Erasure
Publisher: Green Integer
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good