Under Albany by Ron Silliman

Under Albany by Ron Silliman

Under Albany is the shadow movement of Ron Silliman's epic of everyday life, The Alphabet. Silliman provides a set of extended, vividly etched, mostly autobiographical, meditations on the background for each of the original 100 sentences of his 1981 poem Albany. This constructivist memoir provides an exquisitely rich exploration of the relation of context to reference, subtext to meaning, back story to presented experience, and composition to poetics. All of Silliman's work unravels and reforms in this exemplary and exhilarating act of attention, recollection, and reflection. --Charles Bernstein

Ron Silliman's latest book, Under Albany (Salt Publishing, 2004), is a brilliant series of autobiographical, deep background vignettes that explicate – no, enrich each of the 100 sentences of his 1981 poem AlbanyIt is detailed, moving, exasperating, romantic, heartfelt and delicious. For anyone interested in recent literary history and leftist politics, this is a must read.

-- Tom Beckett * Unprotected Texts *

Under Albany shows us that “Albany,” a representative of Silliman’s characteristically language-centered work, is not a product of random language, chance operation, or chaos, a charge often directed at writing like this. Rather, it is a profoundly complex exploration of the mind and emotion that is directly connected to the world and experience from which it emerges.

-- Mark Tursi * Rain Taxi *

Ron Silliman has written and edited 24 books of poetry and criticism to date, including the anthology In the American Tree. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two sons, and works as a market analyst in the computer industry. Since 1979, Silliman has been writing a poem entitled The Alphabet. Volumes published thus far from that project have included ABC, Demo to Ink, Jones, Lit, Manifest, N/O, Paradise, ®, Toner, What and Xing.

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ISBN 13	9781844710515
ISBN 10	1844710513
Title	Under Albany
Author	Ron Silliman
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Salt Publishing
Year published	2004-11-01
Number of pages	116
Prizes	Winner of Small Press Book Award 2004
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.