How Phenomena Appear to Unfold

How Phenomena Appear to Unfold

Literary Nonfiction. New and Expanded Edition. "In 'Eco-logic in Writing,' one of many brilliant essay-talks in this volume, Leslie Scalapino asks, 'Seeing the the moment of, or at the time of, writing, what difference does one's living make?' What more crucial question for those concered not only with writing but with poethics: composing words into a socially conscious wager. For Scalapino the essay is a poetic act; the poetic act, essay. It's in that combination that her textual erosâ€”the lush beauty of it!â€”could reject aesthetic purity and risk the rawness of genuinely new thought, touching what she called 'the rim of occurring.' 'Writing on rim' is a celebration of the wondrous present, but requires agonistic struggle with the uglyâ€”poverty, war, institutional brutality, racism, sexism, homophobia. Scalapino's Steinian strategy of recomposing the vision of one's times, 'altering oneself and altering negative social formation,' is her artfully problematized project of writing ourselves into a better future. With compassion and humor, Scalapino was indeed living on the rim of occurrence. That is the living in the writing that produced this workâ€”its fundamental optimism and ebullient credo: 'The future creates the past'"â€”Joan Retallack.
Country USA
Brand Litmus Press
Manufacturer Litmus Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781933959122
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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