Comments on: Recovery Project (3) Ron Silliman – The New Sentence (1977)

By: The Dominant and the Longue Durée « BIG OTHER

The Dominant and the Longue Durée « BIG OTHER — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:37:15 +0000

[...] Language Poets. In The New Sentence (1977), Ron Silliman stressed above all else—made dominant—anti-syllogistic writing: The qualities of the new sentence: 1) The paragraph organizes the sentences; 2) The paragraph is a [...]

By: Michael Leong

Michael Leong — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:47:43 +0000

Hi Christopher. I appreciate this post. I read Perloff’s _Poetics of Indeterminacy_ around 2000 and that experience was also a formative event in my education. She has been such a great advocate of experimental writing and she herself writes with such lucidity about some very complex works.

I just re-read “Every Lake Has a House”–what a great little poem: it’s like an extended chiasmus, a wacky rube-goldberg machine made of discourse…

And _The New Sentence_ is classic. I love the idea of syntactical “torque.”

By: alan

alan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:23:54 +0000

fuck, this looks great

By: John Madera

John Madera — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:28:22 +0000

Yes!

And you probably already know about this recording of Silliman’s original 1979 talk on The New Sentence:
http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Silliman/Silliman-Ron_Complete-Recording_The-New-Sentence_SanFranArtInstitute_09-16-79.mp3