{"product_id":"readies-for-bob-browns-machine-bob-brown-9781474455053","title":"Readies for Bob Brown's Machine: A Critical Facsimile Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCritical facsimile edition making crucial modernist texts available for the first time since 1931\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eRestores a rare but highly influential modernist anthology to print in a new critical facsimile edition\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides extensive scholarly commentary, analyses, and newly discovered biographical information, setting the anthology in its broader cultural context\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers the first collection of avant-garde writing designed to be read on a 'reading machine' invented by the American expatriate poet Bob Brown\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes both Craig Saper's new Introduction and a separate chapter on the Contributors and their readies. Saper is the leading scholar of Bob Brown's work as well as an important scholar of experimental writing, media, publishing, and art\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis new edition of Bob Brown's groundbreaking collection of modernist writing experiments has been out of print since 1931, when Brown's Roving Eye Press originally published it. Only a few copies exist in archives today. The contributors include major modernist writers such as Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, F. T. Marinetti, Eug鈩e Jolas and Ezra Pound, key social realists like Kay Boyle and James T. Farrell and daring queer novelists and artists including Charles Henri Ford and Sidney Hunt. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProviding extensive scholarly commentary, analyses and newly discovered biographical information, this book sets the anthology in its broader cultural context. This is an essential resource for those interested in print and book history, the politics and culture of the expatriate avant-garde and the reading machine's impact on reading, writing and literacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bob Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474455050\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474455053\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/10\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 0.90d","brand":"Bob Brown","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43941427839231,"sku":"9781474455053","price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0e645123-c2ba-40b2-ae23-d72033daad11.jpg?v=1681452871","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/readies-for-bob-browns-machine-bob-brown-9781474455053","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}