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Ten to One
The first selected poems from one of the most inventive poets writing today.
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
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.
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...
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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.
Captive Audience
Poetry. "Bob Perelman's writing covers a lot of (image) territory as fast as a speeding missile which may (almost) be fast enough. His new book, CAPTIVE AUDIENCE, finds us glued to our seats, laughing at death and the devil again." Rae Armantrout"
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The Future of Memory
Poetry. Bob Perelman is one of our wittiest poets, but his new book, THE FUTURE OF MEMORY, is as scary as it is funny. It presents the poem itself as doomed human subject in time. The poet is both emblem of Western subjectivity and the very figure of the fool -Rae Armantrout. The absence of theory pulses in my neck, / at least I've thought so, / sitting on the edge of the bed, pulling off my socks. / Break the life-mask of empiricism and, underneath, prophecies / become visible: the death of the past, swaddled in / old jargons of self-expression, those other bodies (Chapter Four). To read this book is to give language a second chance, and second life -Susan Stewart. Active in the Bay Area poetry scene during the 70's and 80's, Bob Perelman moved to Philadelphia in 1990, where he teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
