{"product_id":"the-age-of-huts-compleat-volume-21-9780520250161","title":"The Age of Huts (Compleat): Volume 21","description":"Between the Age of Innocence and the Age of Experience comes \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAge of Huts. \u003c\/i\u003eThis book brings together for the first time all of the poems in Ron Silliman's \u003ci\u003eAge of Huts \u003c\/i\u003ecycle, including \u003ci\u003eKetjak, Sunset \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDebris, The Chinese Notebook, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003e2197, \u003c\/i\u003eas well as two key satellite texts, \u003ci\u003eSitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBART. \u003c\/i\u003eEach poem offers a radically different approach toward using language to explore the world. One of the founding works of Language Poetry, \u003ci\u003eThe Age of \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuts \u003c\/i\u003eis about everything, more or less literally, as each sentence, even each phrase, embarks on its own narrative, linking together to form a large polyphonic investigation of contemporary life. From \u003ci\u003eKetjak, \u003c\/i\u003eone of the first poems to employ \"the new sentence,\" to \u003ci\u003e2197, \u003c\/i\u003ea serial work that scrambles the vocabulary and grammar of its sentences, \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAge of Huts \u003c\/i\u003equestions everything we have known about poetry in order to see the world anew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRon Silliman \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of more than twenty volumes of poetry. His most recent books include \u003ci\u003eWoundwood, Under Albany, MultiPlex, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eN\/O.\u003c\/i\u003eand the weblog \"Silliman's Blog\" (ronsilliman.blogspot.com).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52179033096466,"sku":"9780520250161","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_31fecf0b-a5e6-4c0c-9a50-8d4e8d8f5add.jpg?v=1775633796","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-age-of-huts-compleat-volume-21-9780520250161","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}