Entries published during October, 2016

Announcing Questions of Poetics:
Language Writing and Consequences

in a numbered and signed limited edition.

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Both paperback and hardcover editions are available directly from the author; the paperback edition may be purchased from University of Iowa Press, which is offering a 35% discount for six months, and as well as at Amazon.com and other online suppliers.

See linked page for ordering information. Friends may purchase the paperback edition at author’s cost plus postage; the hardcover edition (limited to 75 copies) is available to friends for $50 and to institutions and collectors for $75.

Friday, September 30
Literary salon @ Carla Harryman
discussing current book projects
with Christine Neufeld, English, EMU

Matt Kirkpatrick
Susan McCarty
Rob Halpern
Lee Azus
Christine Hume
Melissa Jones
Craig Dionne
Charles Cunningham
Nataša Kovacevic
Megan Stockton
Caitlin Browne

(after on Kawara)

Friday, September 23
Seminar on Questions of Poetics
Moe’s Books reading and discussion
Hearst Field Annex, Beta Lounge, Moe’s Books

Lyn Hejinian
Charles Altieri
Dan Blanton
Jane Gregory
Andrew Key
Mark Goble
Mitch Breitwieser
George Lakoff
Kathleen Frumkin
Brian Ang
… More

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On September 23, Questions of Poetics was the focus of an intense and productive discussion among a group of faculty and students from the English Department at UC Berkeley. The event was introduced by Lyn Hejinian and continued with response papers from Charles Altieri, Dan Blanton, Jane Gregory, and Andrew Key. Participants were provided with pdfs of the introduction and the first part of chapter 2, on “Language Writing and Late Capitalism.” The discussion centered on key claims of the book as a whole and of that chapter, including: radical particularity, textual materiality, period style, reception history, and recent controversies in poetics. The conversation continued later in the day at the Beta Lounge, followed by a book launch at Moe’s Books that evening.