{"product_id":"the-age-of-huts-compleat-ron-silliman-9780520250161","title":"The Age of Huts (Compleat): Volume 21","description":"Between the Age of Innocence and the Age of Experience comes \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAge of Huts. \u003c\/i\u003eThis book brings together for the first time all of the poems in Ron Silliman's \u003ci\u003eAge of Huts \u003c\/i\u003ecycle, including \u003ci\u003eKetjak, Sunset \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDebris, The Chinese Notebook, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e2197, \u003c\/i\u003eas well as two key satellite texts, \u003ci\u003eSitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBART. \u003c\/i\u003eEach poem offers a radically different approach toward using language to explore the world. One of the founding works of Language Poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Age of \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuts \u003c\/i\u003eis about everything, more or less literally, as each sentence, even each phrase, embarks on its own narrative, linking together to form a large polyphonic investigation of contemporary life. From \u003ci\u003eKetjak, \u003c\/i\u003eone of the first poems to employ \"the new sentence,\" to \u003ci\u003e2197, \u003c\/i\u003ea serial work that scrambles the vocabulary and grammar of its sentences, \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAge of Huts \u003c\/i\u003equestions everything we have known about poetry in order to see the world anew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ron Silliman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520250168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520250161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.84h x 6.10w x 0.89d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/16\/2007 pg. 34","brand":"Ron Silliman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992210800895,"sku":"9780520250161","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_15fb7b4e-0e84-4f8b-8d04-2f84af734208.jpg?v=1683314669","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-age-of-huts-compleat-ron-silliman-9780520250161","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}