The New Sentence

by Ron Silliman

Overview

Originally appearing in 1977 and now in its 11th printing, The New Sentence by Ron Silliman is a classic collection of essays by one of the sharpest minds in American contemporary poetic thought. It is a collection with rich insight into Silliman's own monumental poetical work and the writing of his peers, a book which both illuminates the concerns of the era in which it was written and radiates outward with a tremendous scope that continues to bear fruit for the contemporary reader.

"Ron Silliman is a terrific prose critic … positively bristles with intellectual and political energy of a very high order."—Bruce Boone.

Cultural Studies. Linguistics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780937804209
Publisher:	Roof Books
Publication date:	09/01/1987
Series:	Roof Bks.
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	209
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Ron Silliman has written and edited over 30 books, and has had his poetry and criticism translated into 12 languages. He has worked as a political activist, editor, and market analyst. Among his honors, Silliman was a 2012 Kelly Writers House Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, and the 2010 recipient of the Levinson Prize, from the Poetry Foundation. His sculpture poetry (Bury Neon) is permanently on display in the transit centre of Bury, Lancashire, and he has a plaque in the walk dedicated to poetry in his home town of Berkeley, although he now lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania.