Description: "Leslie Scalapino's undulating phrasal rhythms are in turn psychedelic, analytic, notational, pointillistic, and narrational. Like a sumo wrestler doing contact improvisation with a ballerina, Scalapino balances the unbalanceable poetic accounts of social justice and aesthetic insistence."--Charles Bernstein "Only a very few poets or writers of any disposition have such a formal enterprise as is here evident. In that sense one might qualify this work as being both the concept and demonstration in a way that would be akin to aspects of contemporary philosophy, or the most forward of international poetriesThe formal brilliance of the construction is altogether dazzling. How Leslie Scalapino manages to make a 'virtual reality' in which reality itself becomes the determinant is an absolute wonder to me."--Robert Creeley

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