NOT THIS: SELECTED WRITINGS
BY BARRETT WATTEN
MOSCOW: POLYPHEM, 2024
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Polyphem, an independent press in Moscow, has announced publication of a comprehensive, bilingual edition of the writings of Barrett Watten.
The works, chosen by editor Vladimir Feshchenko, extend from his first collection (Opera—Works, 1975) to the unpublished “Notzeit,” written during COVID (2020).
The selection represents the author’s “turn to language” in the 1970s, his development of hybrid genres and longer forms, and his critique of distorted social communication. … More