"Under Albany is the shadow movement of Ron Silliman's epic of everyday life, The Alphabet. Silliman provides a set of extended, vividly etched, mostly autobiographical, meditations on the background for each of the original 100 sentences of his 1981 poem Albany. This constructivist memoir provides an exquisitely rich exploration of the relation of context to reference, subtext to meaning, back story to presented experience, and composition to poetics. All of Silliman's work unravels and reforms in this exemplary and exhilarating act of attention, recollection, and reflection." --Charles Bernstein

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Published: 11/15/2004
ISBN: 9781844710515
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.27d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 04/18/2005 pg. 59