Time spent in Japan, and everyday life in Berkeley and Oakland, come together as a kaleidoscope of words and consciousness in New Time. Leslie Scalapino pushes at the edges / spatial shape of language and experience in her new collection by writing that is itself events, which are to "punch a hole in reality."
Real events, occurring in real time, are transformed in the act of writing them as perceived rather than interpreted. Phrases repeat, conjoin, break apart, and return in this challenging and innovative work, as Scalapino moves toward a"new time" wherein there is no 'inner' -- one's illusion that is "the adamant social being / is inner" and "the body is a new form."
- ISBN10 0585371326
- ISBN13 9780585371320
- Publish Date 14 May 2014 (first published 3 May 1999)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University Press of New England
- Format eBook
- Pages 100
- Language English