The Front Matter, Dead Souls.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scalapino, Leslie

Series:

Wesleyan poetry.

Wesleyan poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women poets, American.

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Hanover : Wesleyan University Press, 1996.

Summary:

"This extraordinary new book is essay-fiction-poetry, an experiment in form, "a serial novel for publication in the newspaper" that collapses the distinction between documentary and fiction. Loosely set in Los Angeles, the book scrutinizes our image-making, producing extreme and vivid images -- hyena, Muscle Beach in Venice, the Supreme Court, subway rides -- in order for them to be real."--Back cover.

Contents:

Intro

THE FRONT MATTER: DEAD SOULS

Introduction

THE FRONT MATTER

NEXT CHAPTER

THE LATTER

DEAD SOULS

NOW

NEW

Appendix: The Sky of Text.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.