Tjanting - Softcover

Silliman, Ron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1876857196 ISBN 13: 9781876857196

Publisher: Salt Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

Space heater. Writing gathers around the pigeons. This line leads to Uranus. Nun census. Silver fork upon a chippd blue plate. I saw sleeping bag, pillows in the Buick's back. The companionship of refrigerator's hum. This is beginning I again began not. Salt shaker tall as coffee's mug. Dented Opel's orange fender. Gray dawn.

About this title

About the Author:

Ron Silliman has written and edited 24 books of poetry and criticism to date, including the anthology In the American Tree. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two sons, and works as a market analyst in the computer industry. Since 1979, Silliman has been writing a poem entitled The Alphabet. Volumes published thus far from that project have included ABC, Demo to Ink, Jones, Lit, Manifest, N/O, Paradise, (R), Toner, What and Xing.

Review:

It's true we need another Allen Ginsberg. Unfortunately, I don't see one on the horizon, unless Ron Silliman can get himself arrested.--Keith Tuma "Sulfur "

Of all the Language Poets, Silliman's express-line writing was and is the one that stuck to my ribs. It was so thingy, so specific, so formally radical, so hard-headed, yet witty, and now and then, in spite of itself, lyric. I liked his post-industrial music. I loved Ketjak and Tjanting and Paradise ... And the reach - the compulsion to pull everything in.--C.D. Wright "Jacket "

Silliman's writing is fun to read: Its pleasure lies in the gradual unfolding of intricate forms and in the mix of puns, declarations, sounds and sights from our daily environment, the range of references from philosophy to baseball.--Hank Lazer "The Nation "

About this edition

• Publisher: Salt Publishing
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1876857196
• ISBN 13: 9781876857196
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212