Objects in the terrifying tense: essays & uncollected writings, 1976-2010

"Objects in the Terrifying Tense: Essays & Uncollected Writings by Leslie Scalapino (1976-2010) gathers Scalapino's uncollected expository prose-talks, conversations, essays, and statements of poetics-alongside key pieces from her major critical collections, offering the most comprehensive view to date of her "critical" writing practice across four decades. Conceived as a companion volume to How Phenomena Appear to Unfold (Litmus Press, 2011), it brings together the rich "surplus" that could not be contained by that book's focus, completing a two-volume map of the thinking of one of the most formally daring writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Edited by Michael Cross and E. Tracy Grinnell and organized chronologically, the collection aims to let readers move through her evolving concerns in real time, from early notes on practice to later investigations of writing's structures as lived scrutiny." - Provided by publisher