(Ebook) The age of huts (compleat) by Silliman, Ronald ISBN 9780520250147, 9780520940420, 0520250141, 0520940423

(Ebook) The age of huts (compleat) by Silliman, Ronald ISBN 9780520250147, 9780520940420, 0520250141, 0520940423

Between the Age of Innocence and the Age of Experience comes TheAge of Huts. This book brings together for the first time all of the poems in Ron Silliman's Age of Huts cycle, including Ketjak, SunsetDebris, The Chinese Notebook, and 2197, as well as two key satellite texts, Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps, and BART. Each poem offers a radically different approach toward using language to explore the world. One of the founding works of Language Poetry, The Age ofHuts 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 Ketjak, one of the first poems to employ "the new sentence," to 2197, a serial work that scrambles the vocabulary and grammar of its sentences, TheAge of Huts questions everything we have known about poetry in order to see the world anew.