The age of huts (compleat)

326 Pages·2007·1.075 MB·English

by  Silliman, Ronald

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Ron Silliman The Age of Huts (compleat)
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Silliman, Ronald, 1946–.
[Age of huts]
The age of huts (compleat) / Ron Silliman.
p. cm. — (New California poetry ; 21)
This title is one of a four-part poem cycle, which is entitled Ketjak. The parts
are: The age of huts, Tjanting, The alphabet, & Universe.
isbn:978-0-520-25014-7 (cloth : alk. paper)
isbn:978-0-520-25016-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
I. Silliman, Ronald, 1946–Ketjak. II. Title.
ps3569.i445a7 2007
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for K r i s h n a E v a n s
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C o n t e n t s
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Ketjak / 1
Sunset Debris / 103
The Chinese Notebook / 147
2197 / 179
IAm Marion Delgado 181
IMeet Osip Brik 191
Rhizome 195
Winter Landscape with Skaters and a Bird Trap 206
The Joy of Physics 216
San Francisco Destroyed by Fire 220
The Four Protozoas 231
Turk Street News 241
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Invasion of the Stalinoids 245
Allied Gardens 256
The Scheme of Things 266
Considerations of Representability 270
Do City 281
Satellite Texts / 291
Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps 293
BART 300
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P r e f a c e
Since 1974, I have been at work on a single poem, which I call Ketjak.
This project in turn is composed of four works: The Age of Huts,
Tjanting, The Alphabet, &Universe. With the exception of Tjanting,
abook-length poem in its own right, each of these incorporated projects
is itself a compilation of texts. This is the first opportunity I have had to
present The Age of Huts in its complete form, a cycle of four poems with
two satellite texts. In keeping with the sort of Russian-doll structure that
Iseem to keep reinventing, it may come as no surprise that one of the
four poems in the Age of Huts cycle is itself composed of a series of
poems.