Zone - by Barrett Watten (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

An essential practitioner of the Language movement, Barrett Watten has spent a lifetime writing works that lay bare the way language creates and is created by the swirling social, cultural, and political world we live in. In this monumental collection he creates long "correlative" works (collating disparate texts, his own and others') that react to, depict, and theorize our present drastic moment. Line by line, sentence by sentence, they deliver great power and seriousness of intent. -- Norman Fischer

About the Author

Barrett Watten's concept of "zone" has many sources. One extends back to his boyhood in Taiwan, a zone of its own, poised between China and Japan, with sea all around. That early space between has a bearing on his lifelong exploration of zones of thought, zones of language, zones of conflict. As a poet, he emerges out of Robert Creeley, Ted Berrigan, Joanne Kyger, and Anselm Hollo, onward to Robert Grenier and Clark Coolidge, Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky, and into community with the Language poets and their theoretical biographies around a Grand Piano. He moves through various frames or z