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The Alphabet
The Alphabet
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decades in the making, continually debated, discussed, and imitated since fragments first appeared in the 1970s. Consisting of twenty-six smaller books, one for each letter of the alphabet, it employs language in ways that are startling and innovative. Over the course of the three decades during which it has appearedin journals, magazines, and as stand-alone volumesits influence has been wide-ranging, both on practicing poets and on critics who have had to contend with the way it has changed the direction of American poetry. Ron Silliman, a founder of the language poetry movement in the 1960s and one of its most dedicated and acclaimed practitioners, has deployed in
the full range of formal and linguistic experiments for which he is known.
is a work of American ethnography, a cultural collage of artifacts, moments, episodes, and voiceshistorical and privatethat capture the dizzying evolution of America’s social, cultural, and literary consciousness.