New Time

Leslie Scalapino

ISBN 10: 0819563560 / ISBN 13: 9780819563569

Published by Wesleyan University Press / University Press of New England, Hanover, NH and London, 1999

About this Item

Paperback variant. 8vo. Wrappers. [vi], 98pp. Cover by Gerhard Richter, and with back cover quotations by Robert Creeley and Ron Silliman. Slightly bumped to the upper corner at the rear. This copy has been signed by the author ('Leslie') and inscribed to Tom (Raworth).

Seller Inventory # 007106

Bibliographic Details

• Title: New Time
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press / University Press of New England, Hanover, NH and London
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819563560
• ISBN 13: 9780819563569
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Language Poets

About this title

Synopsis

Time spent in Japan, and everyday life in Berkeley and Oakland, come together as a kaleidoscope of words and consciousness in New Time. Leslie Scalapino pushes at the edges / spatial shape of language and experience in her new collection by writing that is itself events, which are to "punch a hole in reality." Real events, occurring in real time, are transformed in the act of writing them as perceived rather than interpreted. Phrases repeat, conjoin, break apart, and return in this challenging and innovative work, as Scalapino moves toward a"new time" wherein there is no 'inner' -- one's illusion that is "the adamant social being / is inner" and "the body is a new form."

About the Author

LESLIE SCALAPINO is author of numerous books of poetry, essays, and plays, as well as the novel Defoe (1994). Wesleyan has published her most recent books: The Public World / Syntactically Impermanence and The Front Matter, Dead Souls (1996).