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Something said / Gilbert Sorrentino ; prefaces by the author.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sorrentino, Gilbert, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Publishers' advertisements.
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- viii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 364 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First Dalkey Archive edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Dalkey Archive Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- "For over the decades, Gilbert Sorrentino has produced brilliant, penetrating essays and reviews, each one an uncompromising statement of what is good - and what is not - in literature and culture. Something Said collects in a single volume these definitive readings of such major twentieth-century innovators as William Carlos Williams, William Gaddis, Italo Calvino, John Hawkes, and Robert Creeley, along with critical writings on film, pop culture, and visual art." "This new expanded edition includes twenty-five pieces written since the publication of the first edition in 1984"--Jacket.
- Contents:
- The act of creation and its artifact
- William Carlos Williams
- Jack Spicer
- Louis Zukofsky
- William Bronk
- Kenneth Rexroth
- Lorine Niedecker
- Jonathan Williams
- Edward Dahlberg
- Paul Blackberg
- Hubert Selby
- Coleman Dowell
- Michael McClure: Artaud
- Max Finstein
- Ron Loewinsohn's Watermelons
- Measure of maturity
- Charles Olson: The distances
- Andrew Hoyem: The wake
- Neruda: Residence on earth
- An octopus/of ice
- Ross Feld's plums
- Emerald on the beach
- George Oppen: smallness of cause
- A glance at West's west
- John Hawkes' oranges
- Lost lives
- Larry Woiwode: Beyond the bedroom wall
- Never on Sunday
- Blue Gass
- Garcia Marquez's monster
- David Antin talking
- Le style de Queneau
- Travels with Calvino
- Paul Bowles: the clash of cultures
- La Guaracha
- The ending is wanting
- John Gardner: Rhinestone in the rough
- "For my day had passed"
- Ross Macdonald: some remarks on the limitations of form
- Moderns
- Ten pamphlets
- Black mountaineering
- Empty, empty promises, promises
- Dan Rice
- Mort Lucks
- A note on William Anthony
- Genetic coding
- Calvino's artifice
- Maurice Blanchot: language
- lying and treacherous
- Forty more by Barthelme
- Avant-garde star chart
- Glenn Gould and friends
- Rumaker's lost souls
- The doctor at work: The doctor stories
- The definitive Paterson
- God is under repair
- Anytime is every time
- Icy, brilliant, unsentimental
- For Coelman Dowell
- Basil Bunting
- L.Z.'s prose
- In memoriam Douglas Woolf
- The monster come to dinner
- On Robert Creeley
- Misconstruing Lorine Niedecker
- From the brilliant to the fatuous
- Fictional infinities
- What's new?: the innovative act
- Beliefs reasonable, unreasonable beliefs
- Flann Brian O'Brien O'Nolan
- Things ain't what they seem: Frank Capra's It's a wonderful life
- Writing and writers: Disjecta Membra.
- Notes:
- Publishers advertisements: pages [5]-[6] at end.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Harry Mathews Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Harry Mathews.
- ISBN:
- 1564783103
- 9781564783103
- OCLC:
- 46731176
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