Chicago Review, June 22nd, 1996
Ronald Silliman is chiefly known for his participation in the development of Language poetry in the late 1970s and 1980s; his 1986 anthology, In the American Tree, brings together much of this work, which experiments with structure, syntax, and the question of referentiality in poetics. When he helped select the preceding selection of Bay Area poets, this movement was yet to come. SILLIMAN recently explained the moment before Language poetry hit and explains how his own "Text VII," which appeared in the Spring 1971 issue, would engage questions that became central to subsequent Language writ...
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