New Time (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

About this book

Time spent in Japan and everyday life in Berkeley and Oakland come together as a kaleidoscope of words and consciousness in New Time. Leslie Scalapino pushes at the edges / spatial shape of language and experience in her new collection by writing that is itself events which are to "punch a hole in reality." Real events occurring in real time are transformed in the act of writing them as perceived rather than interpreted. Phrases repeat conjoin break apart and return in this challenging and innovative work as Scalapino moves toward a "new time" wherein there is no inner ones illusion that is "the adamant social being / is inner" and "the body is a new form."