{"product_id":"the-public-worldsyntactically-impermanence-9780819563798","title":"The Public World\/Syntactically Impermanence","description":"The Public World \/ Syntactically Impermanence is a brilliant consideration of the strategies of poetry, and the similarities between early Zen thought and some American avant-garde writings that counter the \"language of determinateness,\" or conventions of perception. The theme of the essays is poetic language which critiques itself, recognizing its own conceptual formations of private and social, the form or syntax of the language being \"syntactically impermanence.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhether writing reflexively on her own poetry or looking closely at the writing of her peers, Leslie Scalapino makes us aware of the split between commentary (discourse and interpretation) and interior experience. The \"poetry\" in the collection is both commentary and interior experience at once. She argues that poetry is perhaps most deeply political when it is an expression that is not recognized or readily comprehensible as discourse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/27\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819563798\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 6.20w x 0.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/28\/1999 pg. 75\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Leslie Scalapino","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36644726341788,"sku":"9780819563798","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_bd9a05bb-ac27-4db1-b34a-8d81f29bb09e.jpg?v=1603859324","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-public-worldsyntactically-impermanence-9780819563798","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}