Offers insights into the history of the movement and discusses the political and theoretical implications of the writing. This book providesreadings of work by Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman, and Charles Bernstein, among many others, and compares it to a wide range of other contemporary and modern American poetry.
"Bob Perelman, both as a poet and an extremely intelligent and witty analyst of the language writing movement, writes as someone genuinely hoping to explain his subject to readers who are not already converts."--Roger Gilbert
"[An] excellent critical study of language writing and its place in literary history. . . . Perelman delivers a Rosetta Stone which will be invaluable to those seeking a clearer understanding of the movement's origins, theories, and goals."
