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 eros—the lush beauty of it!—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 ugly—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 work—its fundamental optimism and ebullient credo: 'The future creates the past'"—Joan Retallack.

Product Description: Fiction. Poetry. Cross-Genre. Slim, but with as many wildly disparate imaginative scenes and situations as a massive Pynchon novel--miners, polar bears, insurgents sweeping the desert in Toyota pickups, a detective on the trail of illegal fur traders, Venus Williams' deconstructed forehand, wild horses, blooming chrysanthemums, tadpoles eating corpses in the Euphrates, and so much more--Leslie Scalapino's FLOATS HORSE-FLOATS OR HORSE-FLOWS is a startlingly beautiful, politically engaged, poetic novel...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Art. Nonfiction. WAR AND PEACE 4: VISION AND TEXT is devoted to collaborations between visual works and poetry, includes collaborative works of Charles Bernstein with Susan Bee, Amy Evans McClure with Michael McClure, Kiki Smith with Leslie Scalapino, Denise Newman with Gigi Janchang, a film on paper by Lyn Hejinian, Alan Halsey's visual texts, Simone Fattal, and Petah Coyne...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Borrowing Tolstoy's title and basing the anthology's manifestation of War and Peace on the conception that everything goes on in war and peace, the editors, Judith Goldman and Leslie Scalapino, have gathered forty poets on the theme of "The Future...read more

Product Description: Recognized internationally as one of the most original poets writing today, Leslie Scalapino has developed a devoted following. This massive collection explores her continued fascination with time and being, collecting various works from the past several years.

Product Description: Detectives are investigating the death of Dahlia Winter's husband and also looking into the mysterious deaths of young boys who are imported for labor in a future-time San Francisco. Citing the plots of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Terminator 2, and Blade Runner as proof that our sense of inner and outer is tied to rebellion and slavery, the novel appears at first to be a detail of these films all at once, like a colonization of them from the inside...read more

Product Description: Zither & Autobiography is comprised of two parts: the author’s autobiography and a book-length poem entitled "Zither." Both parts of the book are concerned with facts and their undoing. In Autobiography, Scalapino explores her shifting memories of childhood—especially of years spent in Asia—experimenting with the memoir form to explore how a view of one’s own life develops, how "fixed memories move as illusion...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Prose. "A radical purpose of poetry in critical times is to disrupt the language of consensus."-Rick London. "ENOUGH, which the editors began to assemble following 9/11 at the start of the U.S. war on Afghanistan, is a collection of poets whose writings are interactive with the current time, writing as its matter and syntax not separate from oppressive conditions and war...read more

Defoe is an epic where images of -battle become meditations, an epic wherein events flap in silence as the narrative moves toward a place where the reader and text become one. The images of this fiction don’t resemble events, but are new occurrences in time and space. In Part I, Waking Life, the heroine, in love with James Dean, discovers herself in a desert pocked with fires in which the "henna man"—a drug dealer—is being carried in a white cocoon. And throughout Scala-pino’s work the reader is taken into a world where the written word creates "an event retrieved from so far back that it is separated from memory."

Product Description: The Tango, a serial poem by Leslie Scalapino, is juxtaposed with her photographs of debating monks at a monastery in Tibet. Steeped in the bright light of the present tense, Scalapino's writing and images are combined with New York artist Marina Adams's paintings on patterned cloth, all of which create a book object akin to a Buddhist tanka...read more

Product Description: Prose. Subtitled "A Detective Novel Series," ORCHID JETSAM includes two closely related mysteries, "Orchid Jetsam" and "Clear Land." In the first, San Francisco homicide detective Grace Abe - inhabited by the ghost of a U.S. Marine who had been an undercover assassin - runs as 'someone else' within her own frame in public space where people are becoming ill in crowds...read more

A collection of essays and poetry from the poetry from the poet Library Journal.

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Poetry. Poetics. SEAMLESS ANTILANDSCAPE constitutes the engagement of a major American writer with a major critic of contemporary experimental writing. Leslie Scalapino includes poetry, essay and commentary in this critique of Marjorie Perloff's critique of Scalapino and other's work...read more

Product Description: Fiction. "The novels in this trilogy are not novels in any conventional sense. Scalapino rejects the orderly development of plot and character, striking instead at what she perceives to be the radical chaos of human experience by writing from an ever-shifting multitude of perspectives...read more

Product Description: Drama. A collaborative play in ten scenes, populated by a number of anonymous people and a few not so anonymous people such as Orpheus, Eurydice, Julia Roberts and Giorgio Agamben. "This play is our concerted attempt to demolish society"--Leslie Scalapino