Note: This was originally published November 10, 2010. A few months ago, in April, to be exact, I started…
Using Viktor Shklovsky
[This post began as a response to some comments made by Douglas Storm on Amber’s most recent post.] The name…
On a Poetics of Choice
I have never seen a theory of poetry that adequately included a sub-theory of choice. –Ron Silliman, from The Chinese…
What’s So New about the New Sentence?
The new sentence, like all other “new” phenomena and movements (the New Criticism, the New Novel, the New Narrative, dozens…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: An Anthology, of Sorts
A few months ago, in April, to be exact, I started a series of posts entitled “A Sentence About a…
Over Forty Writers Over Forty to Watch
Writing the title of this post actually felt very silly; it seems such an arbitrary way of gathering a list…
The Dominant and the Longue Durée
It’s a very familiar story: Romanticism began in 1798 and ended in 1900, when it was replaced by Modernism. …Although…
Innovation’s Altar (or, what’s So New about Innovation?)
Regarding “Innovation Redux” by Malachi Black and this post by Ron Silliman (which were both partially responding to something I…
Recovery Project (3) Ron Silliman – The New Sentence (1977)
The qualities of the new sentence: 1) The paragraph organizes the sentences; 2) The paragraph is a unit of quantity,…