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The Front Matter, Dead Souls

By: Leslie Scalapino

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Leslie Scalapino is widely regarded as one of the best avant-garde writers in America today. 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. Countering contemporary trends toward interiority, Scalapino's work constitutes a unique effort to "be" objectively in the world. The writing is an action, a dynamic push to make intimacy in the public realm. She does not distinguish between poetry and "real events": her writing is analogous to Buddhist notions of dreaming one is a butterfly, and becoming aware that actually being the butterfly is as real as dreaming it.

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819572616

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9780819572615

New Time

By: Leslie Scalapino

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New Time

By: Leslie Scalapino

The latest collection of poetry from one of the foremost American avant-garde poets.

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108

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819563560

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9780819563569

The Public World/Syntactically Impermanence

By: Leslie Scalapino

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The Public World/Syntactically Impermanence

By: Leslie Scalapino

The Public World / Syntactically Impermanence is a brilliant consideration of the strategies of poetry, and the similarities between early Zen thought and some American avant-garde writings that counter the "language of determinateness," or conventions of perception. The theme of the essays is poetic language which critiques itself, recognizing its own conceptual formations of private and social, the form or syntax of the language being "syntactically impermanence." Whether writing reflexively on her own poetry or looking closely at the writing of her peers, Leslie Scalapino makes us aware of the split between commentary (discourse and interpretation) and interior experience. The "poetry" in the collection is both commentary and interior experience at once. She argues that poetry is perhaps most deeply political when it is an expression that is not recognized or readily comprehensible as discourse.

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819572225

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9780819572226

It’s Go in Horizontal

Selected Poems, 1974–2006

By: Leslie Scalapino

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It’s Go in Horizontal

Selected Poems, 1974–2006

By: Leslie Scalapino

The poems embody ideas about writing and formal inventions, demonstrating how one invention leads to the next. -- Jacket flap.

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Univ of California Press

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0520254627

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9780520254626

It’s go in horizontal

Selected Poems, 1974–2006

By: Leslie Scalapino

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It’s go in horizontal

Selected Poems, 1974–2006

By: Leslie Scalapino

Internationally recognized as one of the most innovative writers in America today, Leslie Scalapino persistently challenges the boundaries of many forms in which she works—poetry, prose, plays, and more. This outstanding volume includes work from sequential and serial poems written over thirty-two years. The poems demonstrate ideas and inventions in writing, and how one writing invention leads to the next. Three series are selected from the long poem way, about which Philip Whalen said, "She makes everything take place in real time, in the light and air and night where all of us live, everything happening at once." Recent poems, such as those from "DeLay Rose," appear to leave the page itself as a single infinite line in which the actions of individuals and occurrences in the outside world are synonymous, mysterious, and simultaneous. It's go in horizontal is a dazzling entryway into the oeuvre of a daring and powerful writer.

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Univ of California Press

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0520941551

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9780520941557

Zither & Autobiography

By: Leslie Scalapino

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Zither & Autobiography

By: Leslie Scalapino

A reflective, eclectic mixture of poetry and prose.

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Wesleyan University Press

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081956477X

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9780819564771

Way

By: Leslie Scalapino

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Way

By: Leslie Scalapino

Poems deal with urban life, violence, animals, social tensions, obsessions, alienation, and personal interaction

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148

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Green Integer Books

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086547320X

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9780865473201

Dahlia's Iris

Secret Autobiography and Fiction

By: Leslie Scalapino

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Dahlia's Iris

Secret Autobiography and Fiction

By: Leslie Scalapino

A futuristic detective novel written in the tradition of an ancient Tibetan form.

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University of Alabama Press

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1573661112

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It’s Go in Horizontal

Selected Poems, 1974–2006

By: Leslie Scalapino

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It’s Go in Horizontal

Selected Poems, 1974–2006

By: Leslie Scalapino

The poems embody ideas about writing and formal inventions, demonstrating how one invention leads to the next. -- Jacket flap.

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The Public World/Syntactically Impermanence

By: Leslie Scalapino

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The Public World/Syntactically Impermanence

By: Leslie Scalapino

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The Front Matter, Dead Souls

By: Leslie Scalapino

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The Front Matter, Dead Souls

By: Leslie Scalapino

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New Time

By: Leslie Scalapino

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New Time

By: Leslie Scalapino

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.

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0819572217

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Dahlia's Iris

Secret Autobiography and Fiction

By: Leslie Scalapino

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Dahlia's Iris

Secret Autobiography and Fiction

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A futuristic detective novel written in the tradition of an ancient Tibetan form.

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University of Alabama Press

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Zither & Autobiography

By: Leslie Scalapino

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Zither & Autobiography

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A reflective, eclectic mixture of poetry and prose.

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Flow---winged Crocodile

A Pair/actions are Erased/appear

By: Leslie Scalapino

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Flow---winged Crocodile

A Pair/actions are Erased/appear

By: Leslie Scalapino

Drama. "For myself and the cast, directing Leslie Scalapino's FLOW has been an extraordinary journey into language and the language in breath, the rhythms of effort to say as precisely as her savage delicacy of thought, her forcing us all to assume nothing in examining the fineness of our implication in each other"--Fiona Templeton.

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0925904937

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9780925904935

Green and Black

Selected Writings

By: Leslie Scalapino

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Green and Black

Selected Writings

By: Leslie Scalapino

Poetry. Prose. Widely identified as one of the most accomplished innovative writers in America, Leslie Scalapino has received both the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and the Poetry Center Award from San Francisco State University. She is the founding editor of O Books, in Oakland, California. GREEN AND BLACK: SELECTED WRITINGS brings together representative works and passages from both her poetry and prose including HOW PHENOMENA APPEAR TO UNFOLD; WAY; THE RETURN OF PAINTING; THE PEARL, AND ORION: A TRILOGY; CROWD AND NOT EVENING OR LIGHT; and others. "What makes this writing go is an incredible ease. A sense of a text that is capable of breathing"--Village Voice.

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Talisman House Pub

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1883689368

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9781883689360

Yokohama Yankee

My Family's Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan

By: Leslie Helm

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Yokohama Yankee

My Family's Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan

By: Leslie Helm

Leslie D. Helm's decision to adopt Japanese children launches him on a personal journey through his family's 140 years in Japan, beginning with his great-grandfather, who worked as a military advisor in 1870 and defied custom to marry his Japanese mistress. The family's poignant experiences of love and war help Helm overcome his cynicism and embrace his Japanese and American heritage. This is the first book to look at Japan across five generations, with perspective that is both from the inside and through foreign eyes. Helm draws on his great-grandfather's unpublished memoir and a wealth of primary source material to bring his family history to life. Leslie D. Helm is a veteran foreign correspondent, having served eight years in Tokyo for Business Week and the Los Angeles Times. Currently, he is editor of Seattle Business, a monthly magazine that has won multiple first place excellence in journalism awards in the Pacific Northwest. Helm earned a master's degree in journalism from the Columbia University School of Journalism and in Asian studies from the University of California, Berkeley. He was born and raised in Yokohama, Japan, where his family has lived since 1868.

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Chin Music Press Inc.

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0984457690

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9780984457694

Chen Jiongming and the Federalist Movement

Regional Leadership and Nation Building in Early Republican China

By: Leslie Chen

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Chen Jiongming and the Federalist Movement

Regional Leadership and Nation Building in Early Republican China

By: Leslie Chen

The local self-government movement in China began in the late Qing, and by the Revolution of 1911 no less than five thousand self-government councils had formed around the country. While the idea of a federated state was cherished by early revolutionaries, a growing conflict between federalist and centralist leaders culminated in the defeat of federalism in the mid-1920s. The story of this movement has since remained hidden behind Nationalist and Communist accounts of the early revolutionary struggle. This study of Chen Jiongming's political career reopens the record on federalist efforts, focusing on Chen's policies and administrative achievements in Fujian and Guangdong. It describes Chen's role in the tumultuous politics of southern China from 1909 until his death in 1933, including his relationship and notorious break with Sun Yat-sen, the leader of the centralist revolutionaries. Leslie Chen argues that his father's attempts to create a democratic, federalist system in Guangdong were aimed at providing a model for China as a whole. His account is lively and readable; it gives an intimate, yet historically accurate, account of Chen Jiongming's considerable role in early twentieth-century Chinese history. Leslie Chen was born in Guangdong, China. In 1988 he compiled "A Collection of Historiographic Materials for a Biography of Chen Chiung-ming Jiongming], 1878-1933." He has published two Chinese-language biographies of Chen Jiongming.

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University of Michigan Press

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0892641355

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9780892641352

That They Were at the Beach

Aeolotropic Series

By: Leslie Scalapino

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That They Were at the Beach

Aeolotropic Series

By: Leslie Scalapino

Poetry. For this new collection of poems and prose, Leslie Scalapino has gathered four sequences into what she calls "an aeolotropic series." The poems reflect each other like crystals and change like highly polished glass illuminated by a shifting light. They follow the mind from thought and observation to afterthought, reflection, and obsession.

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Green Integer Books

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0865472114

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9780865472112

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