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The Front Matter, Dead Souls

The Front Matter, Dead Souls

Scalapino, Leslie

Paperback

Series: Wesleyan Poetry

General Fiction

ISBN10: 0819562955
ISBN13: 9780819562951
Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr
Published: Mar 13 1996
Pages: 103
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.53 Depth: 8.49
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.

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