Progress/under Erasure

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A new edition of these two innovative long poems by one of the best-known poets and critics associated with Language writing. Upon its original publication in 1985, Progress was greeted with enthusiasm and public debate. Its linguistically charged, emotionally relentless and culturally reflexive non-narrative form was pitched against the media saturation and political banality of the Reagan era. Under Erasure (published in a limited edition in 1991) was written during its purported realisation at the end of the Cold War in 1989, an event it records.

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Barrett Watten is the author of Frame: 1971-1990, Bad History and Zone (in progress). He has participated in two multi-authored experimental works - Leningrad: American writers in the Soviet Union and The Grand Piano (ongoing). His collections of critical essays on modern and contemporary poetics appeared as Total Syntax and The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics, which was awarded the 2004 Rene Wellek Prize. He teaches modernist studies and poetics at Wayne State University in Detroit.