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Ten to One
The first selected poems from one of the most inventive poets writing today.
Playing Bodies
Playing Bodies is both a deeply specific, personal account and an undesignated construction that provides the perfect space on which to project ideas of the self. The series of 52 paintings by Francie Shaw and 52 poems by Bob Perelman reflects an intensely united collaboration, one that explores the space where terror and comfort, pleasure and pain are overlaid. Shaw's blue-and-white paintings, reminiscent of Delftware, each depict two of three small toy figurines--a man, a woman and a dinosaur--in various provocative and ambiguous poses, suggesting an often contradictory variety of emotional meanings. As a whole, they form no narrative progression, but rather pose questions about play versus struggle and issues of control. Perelman's lyrics provide "a train of insights into and around Shaw's paintings that is alternately ironic, erotic, saddened and joyful," for a conversation between poet and painter, artists and readers, which rewards in a more profound way than simple repartee.
The Trouble with Genius
"Most poets define poetry by creating it. Bob Perelman creates it by defining it, and is thus one step ahead of all the other poets under the sun, one step closer to colliding with Zeno's vanishing point, to merging coyote with road runner, to winning the hand."—John Ashbery "Profound, subtle, and wonderfully written—this is a book from which anyone interested in the twentieth century can learn."—Marjorie Perloff
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Modernism the Morning After
In Modernism the Morning After, Bob Perelman scrutinizes a number of long-held modernist dogmas in order to articulate a more capacious model for thinking about modernism-past, present, and future. Throughout his career, Perelman has focused on the persistence of modernist ambition in poetry, with all of its admirable articulations and tragicomic short-circuits. Poetry, it turns out, is not simply "news that stays news," as Ezra Pound postulated. Instead, as Perelman demonstrates, poetry often gropes toward whatever news can be found in the broader contexts of public speech-the cultural commons, the almost-real or much-too-real language of people and our hyperactive media. Book jacket.
Leaving Lines of Gender
The most significant contribution to the literary history of Language writing to date.
The Marginalization of Poetry
Language writing, the most controversial avant-garde movement in contemporary American poetry, appeals strongly to writers and readers interested in the politics of postmodernism and in iconoclastic poetic form. Drawing on materials from popular culture, avoiding the standard stylistic indications of poetic lyricism, and using nonsequential sentences are some of the ways in which language writers make poetry a more open and participatory process for the readers. Reading this kind of writing, however, may not come easily in a culture where poetry is treated as property of a special class. It is this barrier that Bob Perelman seeks to break down in this fascinating and comprehensive account of...
Writing the Image After Roland Barthes
"In the final stages of his career, Roland Barthes abandoned his long-standing suspicion of photographic representation to write Camera Lucida, at once an elegy to his dead mother and a treatise on photography. In Writing the Image After Roland Barthes, Jean-Michel Rabate and nineteen contributors examine the import of Barthes's shifting positions on photography and visual representation and the impact of his work on current developments in cultural studies and theories of the media and popular culture."--Publisher description.
Iflife
Poetry. IFLIFE presents some of the wittiest, politically prescient--and best--American poems of this new century. The scope of the collection is prodigious, from the war in Iraq to domestic life, from the state of literary theory to Greek myth, from Hegel and Freud to parents and babies. And guiding us through the torrent of cultural signs raining down on us as if with the wrath of God is one of the most reliable voices in recent poetry. Bob Perelman, who is sardonic and wise, makes the world more apprehendable, if not a better place, wiht each passing poem--Charles Bernstein. Perelman has written 16 books poetry, many of which are also available from SPD.
The Trouble with Genius
"Profound, subtle, and wonderfully written--this is a book from which anyone interested in the twentieth century can learn."--Marjorie Perloff "Most poets define poetry by creating it. Bob Perelman creates it by defining it, and is thus one step ahead of all the other poets under the sun, one step closer to colliding with Zeno's vanishing point, to merging coyote with road runner, to winning the hand."--John Ashbery "Profound, subtle, and wonderfully written--this is a book from which anyone interested in the twentieth century can learn."--Marjorie Perloff
