Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein's L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein's L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
The Complete Facsimile
In February 1978, the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E newsletter, founded and edited by Charles Bernstein and Bruce Andrews, established the first public venue for the thriving correspondence of an emerging set of ambitious young poets. It circulated fresh perspectives on writing, politics, and the arts. Instead of poems, it published short essays and book reviews on the model of the private letter. It also featured extensive bibliographies and excerpts of cultural, social, and political theory. Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein's L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E: The Complete Facsimile makes available in print all twelve of the newsletter's original issues along with three supplementary issues.
The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E newsletters contain some of the most incisive readings of some of the most difficult poetry in the twentieth century, and the reviews often reveal as much about the writers as the works under consideration. The journal pioneered what came to be a signature innovation of Language Poetry and one of its lasting legacies: critical, intellectually acute essays in non-discursive and non-expository modes. Here is news that stays news.'--Craig Dworkin, editor of The Consequence of Innovation: 21st Century Poetics
This is an essential text for anyone wanting to understand how American poetry developed over the past half century. It is also full of revelatory insights into the history of struggles over different understandings of the social and political role of language during the theory wars and how writers forged their own new paths.' -- Peter Middleton, author of Physics Envy: American Poetry and Science in the Cold War and After
Matthew Hofer is an associate professor of English at the University of New Mexico. He is the editor of The Shoshoneans: The People of the Basin-Plateau, Expanded Edition and the coeditor of The Language Letters: Selected 1970s Correspondence of Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, and Ron Silliman (both from UNM Press). Michael Golston is a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He is the author of Poetic Machinations: Allegory, Surrealism, and Postmodern Poetic Form and the coeditor of The Language Letters: Selected 1970s Correspondence of Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, and Ron Silliman (UNM Press).
Introduction: Newsletters That Stay News;000
Matthew Hofer and Michael Golston
Introduction: Newsletters That Stay News
Matthew Hofer and Michael Golston
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Table of Contents: 1978-1981
February 1978
April 1978
June 1978
August 1978
October 1978
December 1978
March 1979
June 1979
October 1979
January 1980
June 1980
December 1980
June 1980, Supplement Number One: The Politics of the Referent
June 1980, Supplement Number Two: Some Recent British Poetry Magazines
October 1981, Supplement Number Three: The Politics of Poetry--A Supplement
Index
