The Age of Huts (Compleat)

Between the Age of Innocence and the Age of Experience comes The Age ofHuts. This book brings together for the first time all of the poems in RonSillimans Age o... » 

Between the Age of Innocence and the Age of Experience comes The Age ofHuts. This book brings together for the first time all of the poems in RonSillimans Age of Huts cycle including Ketjak Sunset Debris The ChineseNotebook and 2197 as well as two key satellite texts Sitting UpStanding Taking Steps and BART. Each poem offers a radically differentapproach toward using language to explore the world. One of the founding worksof Language Poetry The Age of Huts is about everything more or lessliterally as each sentence even each phrase embarks on its own narrativelinking together to form a large polyphonic investigation of contemporary life.From Ketjak one of the first poems to employ the new sentence to 2197a serial work that scrambles the vocabulary and grammar of its sentencesThe Age of Huts questions everything we have known about poetry in order tosee the world anew. «