In the American Tree: Language, Realism, Poetry

Poetry. IN THE AMERICAN TREE is an anthology offering the most substantial collection of work by the Language poets now available, along with 130 pages of theoretic statements by poets included in the anthology. The poets represented include Robert Grenier, Barrett Watten, Lynn Hejinian, Bob Perelman, Michael Palmer, Michael Davidson, Clark Coolidge, Charles Bernstein, Hannah Weiner, Bruce Andrews, Susan Howe, Fanny Howe, Bernadette Mayer, Ray DiPalma, and others. "For millennia, poets have had to make their own way and the world that goes with it. The genius of these various writers and the consummate clarity with which they are presented here make very clear again that not only is this the road now crucial for all poetry, it's literally where we are going"-Robert Creeley.

Ron Silliman has written and edited over 30 books to date. Silliman was the 2006 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and was a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council as well as a Pew Fellow in the Arts in 1998. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two sons, and works as a market analyst in the computer industry.