{"product_id":"the-alphabet-ron-silliman-9780817354930","title":"The Alphabet","description":"\u003cb\u003eA remarkable and notorious literary achievement\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Alphabet\u003c\/i\u003e--decades in the making, continually debated, discussed, and imitated since fragments first appeared in the 1970s. Consisting of twenty-six smaller books, one for each letter of the alphabet, it employs language in ways that are startling and innovative. Over the course of the three decades during which it has appeared--in journals, magazines, and as stand-alone volumes--its influence has been wide-ranging, both on practicing poets and on critics who have had to contend with the way it has changed the direction of American poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ron Silliman, a founder of the language poetry movement in the 1960s and one of its most dedicated and acclaimed practitioners, has deployed in \u003ci\u003eThe Alphabet\u003c\/i\u003e the full range of formal and linguistic experiments for which he is known. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Alphabet\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of American ethnography, a cultural collage of artifacts, moments, episodes, and voices--historical and private--that capture the dizzying evolution of America's social, cultural, and literary consciousness. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ron Silliman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081735493X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817354930\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 952\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 4.98w x 2.32d","brand":"Ron Silliman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926492053759,"sku":"9780817354930","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_bb1df664-0dcf-4456-9824-89a0d6b2bd72.jpg?v=1681083373","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-alphabet-ron-silliman-9780817354930","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}