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Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein released the first issue of the poetics newsletter L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E in 1978, launching language-centered writing. The Language Letters reveals Language poetry in its nascent stage, with letters written by Andrews, Bernstein, Ron Silliman, and others in intense and intimate conversation regarding poetry and poetics; the contemporary poetry and arts scenes; publication venues, journals, and magazines; and issues of community, camaraderie, and friendship. The editors have included two critical introductions, two interviews with Bernstein and Andrews, and appendices that include a previously unpublished essay on Larry Eigner by Robert Grenier and short biographies of the major authors. Written between 1970 and 1978, these letters detail the development of the concepts and styles that came to define one of the most influential movements in post-1960s writing. Scholars, writers, and students of poetry will find this collection essential to understanding this important period of literary history.
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• 1. Sauk Centre : 1885-1903
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• 2. New Haven and New Jersey : 1903-8
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• 3. Bohemia : 1908-19
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• 4. Main street : 1919-21
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• 5. Zenith : 1921-22
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• 6. Hartford and England : 1922-25
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• 7. Paris : 1925
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• 8. Katonah : 1925-26
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• 9. Kansas City to Berlin : 1926-27
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• 10. At large : 1928-30
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• 11. Stockholm : 1930-31
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• 12. Grub street : 1932-29
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• 13. The slough of despond : 1939-45
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• 14. Thorvale farm : 1946-49
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• 15. World so wide : 1949-51.

Sinclair Lewis Remembered is a collection of reminiscences and memoirs by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Lewis that offers a revealing and intimate portrait of this complex and significant Nobel Prize-winning American writer. After a troubled career as a student at Yale, Sinclair Lewis turned to literature as his livelihood, publishing numerous works of popular fiction that went unnoticed by critics. With the 1920s, however, came Main Street, Lewis's first critical success, which was soon followed by Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, and Dodsworth - five of the most influential social novels in the history of American letters, all written within one decade. Nevertheless, Lewis's Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930 led to controversy. Writers such as Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, and Thomas Mann expressed their dissent with the decision. Unable to match his previous success, Lewis suffered from alcoholism, alienated colleagues, and embraced unpopular political positions. The nadir for Lewis's literary reputation was Mark Schorer's 1961 biography, Sinclair Lewis: An American Life, which helped to legitimize the dismissal of Lewis's entire body of work. Recent scholarly research has seen a resurgence of interest in Lewis and his writings. The multiple and varied perspectives found in Remembering Sinclair Lewis, edited by Gary Scharnhorst and Matthew Hofer, illustrate uncompromised glimpses of a complicated writer who should not be forgotten. The more than 115 contributions to this volume include reminiscences by Upton Sinclair, Edna Ferber, Alfred Harcourt, Samuel Putnam, H. L. Mencken, John Hersey, Hallie Flanagan, and many others.
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Sinclair Lewis Remembered is a collection of reminiscences and memoirs by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Lewis that offers a revealing and intimate portrait of this complex and significant Nobel Prize-winning American writer. After a troubled career as a student at Yale, Sinclair Lewis turned to literature as his livelihood, publishing numerous works of popular fiction that went unnoticed by critics. With the 1920s, however, came Main Street, Lewis's first critical success, which was soon followed by Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, and Dodsworth - five of the most influential social novels in the history of American letters, all written within one decade. Nevertheless, Lewis's Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930 led to controversy. Writers such as Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, and Thomas Mann expressed their dissent with the decision. Unable to match his previous success, Lewis suffered from alcoholism, alienated colleagues, and embraced unpopular political positions. The nadir for Lewis's literary reputation was Mark Schorer's 1961 biography, Sinclair Lewis: An American Life, which helped to legitimize the dismissal of Lewis's entire body of work. Recent scholarly research has seen a resurgence of interest in Lewis and his writings. The multiple and varied perspectives found in Remembering Sinclair Lewis, edited by Gary Scharnhorst and Matthew Hofer, illustrate uncompromised glimpses of a complicated writer who should not be forgotten. The more than 115 contributions to this volume include reminiscences by Upton Sinclair, Edna Ferber, Alfred Harcourt, Samuel Putnam, H. L. Mencken, John Hersey, Hallie Flanagan, and many others.
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• Introduction-- Interviews-- 1 "Oscar Wilde's Arrival, " New York World, 3 January 1882-- 2 "Oscar Wilde, " New York Evening Post, 4 January 1882-- 3 "Our New York Letter, " Philadelphia Inquirer, 4 January 1882-- 4 "The Theories of a Poet, " New York Tribune, 8 January 1882-- 5 "The Science of the Beautiful, " New York World, 8 January 1882-- 6 "A Talk with Wilde, " Philadelphia Press, 17 January 1882-- 7 "The Aesthetic Bard, " Philadelphia Inquirer, 17 January 1882-- 8 "What Oscar Has to Say, " Baltimore American, 20 January 1882, 4-- 9 "Wilde and Forbes, " New York Herald, 21 January 1882, 3-- 10 "An Interview with the Poet, " Albany Argus, 28 January 1882-- 11 "Oscar Wilde, " Boston Herald, 29 January 1882-- 12 "The Aesthetic Apostle, " Boston Globe, 29 January 1882-- 13 Lilian Whiting, "They Will Show Him, " Chicago Inter-Ocean, 10 February 1882-- 14 "A Man of Culture Rare, " Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 8 February 1882-- 15 "Wilde Sees the Falls, " Buffalo Express, ca 9 February 1882-- rpt Wheeling Register, 27 Feb 1882-- 16 "The Apostle of Art, " Chicago Inter-Ocean, 11 February 1882-- 17 "Truly Aesthetic, " Chicago Inter-Ocean, 13 February 1882-- 18 "Wilde, " Cleveland Leader, 20 February 1882-- 19 "With Mr Oscar Wilde, " Cincinnati Gazette, 21 February 1882-- 20 "Oscar Wilde, " Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 February 1882-- 21 "Utterly Utter, " St Louis Post-Dispatch, 25 February 1882-- 22 "Speranza's Gifted Son, " St Louis Globe-Democrat, 26 February 1882-- 23 "Oscar As He Is, " St Louis Republican, 26 February 1882-- 24 "Oscar Wilde, " Chicago Tribune, 1 March 1882-- 25 "Philosophical Oscar, " Chicago Times, 1 March 1882-- 26 "David and Oscar, " Chicago Tribune, 5 March 1882-- 27 "Oscar Wilde in Omaha, " Omaha Weekly Herald, 24 March 1882-- 28 "Oscar Wilde: An Interview with the Apostle of Aestheticism, " San Francisco Examiner, 27 Mar 1882-- 29 "Oscar Wilde's Views, " San Francisco Morning Call, 27 March 1882-- 30 "Lo! The Aesthete, " San Francisco Chronicle, 27 March 1882-- 31 "Oscar Arrives, " Sacramento Record-Union, 27 March 1882-- 32 Mary Watson, "Oscar Wilde at Home, " San Francisco Examiner, 9 April 1882-- 33 "Oscar Wilde, " Salt Lake Herald, 12 April 1882-- 34 "Oscar Wilde, " Denver Rocky Mountain News, 13 April 1882-- 35 "Art and Aesthetics, " Denver Tribune, 13 April 1882-- 36 "What Mr Wilde Says about Himself, " Manchester Examiner and Times-- rpt New York Tribune, 11 June 1882-- Chicago Tribune, 17 June 1882, 3-- 37 "Aesthetic / An Interesting Interview with Oscar Wilde, " Dayton Daily Democrat, 3 May 1882-- 38 "Oscar Wilde's Return, " New York World, 6 May 1882-- 39 "Oscar Wilde in Montreal, " Montreal Witness, 15 May 1882-- 40 "Oscar Wilde: The Arch-Aesthete on Aestheticism, " Montreal Star, 15 May 1882-- 41 "Oscar Wilde, " Toronto Globe, 25 May 1882-- 42 "The Aesthete at the Art Exhibition, " Toronto Globe, 26 May 1882-- 43 "Oscar Wilde / Talks of Texas, " New Orleans Picayune, 25 June 1882-- 44 "Oscar Wilde: Arrival of the Great Aesthete, " Atlanta Constitution, 5 July 1882-- 45 "Oscar Dear, Oscar Dear!" Charleston News and Courier, 8 July 1882-- 46 "Loveliness and Politeness, " New York Sun, 20 August 1882-- 47 "The Apostle of Beauty in Nova Scotia, " Halifax Herald, 10 October 1882-- 48 "Oscar Wilde Thoroughly Exhausted, " New York Tribune, 27 November 1882-- Appendix Wilde's lecture "Impressions of America"-- Bibliography of Wilde interviews-- Works Cited.
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Better known in 1882 as a cultural icon than a serious writer, Oscar Wilde was brought to North America for a major lecture tour on Aestheticism and the decorative arts. With characteristic aplomb, he adopted the role as the ambassador of Aestheticism, and he tried out a number of phrases, ideas, and strategies that ultimately made him famous as a novelist and playwright. This exceptional volume cites all ninety-one of Wilde's interviews and contains transcripts of forty-eight of them, and it also includes his lecture on his travels in America.
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• "Oscar Wilde's arrival, " New York World
• "Oscar Wilde, " New York Evening Post
• "Our New York letter, " Philadelphia Inquirer
• "The theories of a poet, " New York Tribune
• "The science of the beautiful, " New York World
• "A talk with Wilde, " Philadelphia Press
• "The aesthetic bard, " Philadelphia Inquirer
• "What Oscar has to say, " Baltimore American
• "Wilde and Forbes, " New York Herald
• "An interview with the poet, " Albany Argus
• "Oscar Wild, " Boston Herald
• "The aesthetic apostle, " Boston Globe
• Lilian Whiting, "They will show him, " Chicago Inter-Ocean
• "A man of culture rare, "
• Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
• "Wilde sees the falls, " Buffalo Express
• "The apostle of art, " Chicago Inter-Ocean
• "Truly aesthetic, " Chicago Inter-Ocean
• "Wilde, " Cleveland Leader
• "With Mr. Oscar Wild, " Cincinnati Gazette
• "Oscar Wilde, " Cincinnati Enquirer
• "Utterly utter, " St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• "Speranza's gifted son, " St. Louis Globe-Democrat
• "Oscar as he is, " St. Louis Republican
• "Oscar Wilde, " Chicago Tribune
• "Philosophical Oscar, " Chicago Times
• "David and Oscar, " Chicago Tribune
• "Oscar Wilde in Omaha, " Omaha Weekly Herald
• "Oscar Wilde: an interview with the apostle of aestheticism, " San Francisco Examiner
• "Oscar Wilde's views, " San Francisco Morning Call
• "Lo! the aesthete, " San Francisco Chronicle
• "Oscar arrives, " Sacramento Record-Union
• Mary Watson, "Oscar Wilde at home, " San Francisco Examiner
• "Oscar Wilde, " Salt Lake Herald
• "Oscar Wilde, " Denver Rocky Mountain News
• "Art and aesthetics, " Denver Tribune
• "What Mr. Wilde says about himself, " Manchester Examiner and Times
• "Aesthetic: an interesting interview with Oscar Wilde, " Dayton Daily Democrat
• "Oscar Wilde's return, " New York World
• "Oscar Wilde in Montreal, " Montreal Witness
• "Oscar Wilde: the arch-aesthete on aestheticism, " Montreal Star
• "Oscar Wilde, " Toronto Globe
• "The aesthete at the art exhibition, " Toronto Globe
• "Oscar Wilde talks of Texas, "
• New Orleans Picayune
• "Oscar Wilde: arrival of the great aesthete, " Atlanta Constitution
• "Oscar dear, Oscar dear!" Charleston News and Courier
• "Loveliness and politeness, " New York Sun
• "The apostle of beauty in Nova Scotia, " Halifax Morning Herald
• "Oscar Wilde thoroughly exhausted, " New York Tribune
• Appendix. Wilde's lecture "Impressions of America."

"This comprehensive and authoritative collection of Oscar Wilde's American interviews affords readers a fresh look at the making of a literary legend. Better known in 1882 as a cultural icon than a serious writer (at twenty-six years old, he had by then published just one volume of poems), Wilde was brought to North America for a major lecture tour on Aestheticism and the decorative arts that was organized to publicize a touring opera, Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience, which lampooned him and satirized the Aesthetic "movement" he had been imported to represent." "In this year-long series of broadly distributed and eagerly read newspaper interviews, Wilde excelled as a master of self-promotion. He visited major cities from New York to San Francisco but also small railroad towns along the way, granting interviews to newspapers wherever asked. With characteristic aplomb, he adopted the role as the ambassador of Aestheticism, and reporters noted that he was dressed for the part. He wooed and flattered his hosts everywhere, pronouncing Miss Alsatia Allen of Montgomery, Alabama, the most beautiful young lady he had seen in the United States, adding, "This is a remark, my dear fellow, I supposed I have made of some lady in every city I have visited in this country. It could be appropriately made. American women are very beautiful."".
"Confronted at every turn by an insatiable audience of sometimes hostile interviewers, the young poet tried out a number of phrases, ideas, and strategies that ultimately made him famous as a novelist and playwright. Seeing America and Americans for the first time, Wilde's perception often proved as sharp as his wit; the echoes of both resound in much of his later writings. His interviewers also succeeded in getting him to talk about many other topics, from his opinions of British and American writers (he thought Poe was America's greatest poet) to his views of Mormonism. This volume cites all ninety-one of Wilde's interviews and contains transcripts of forty-eight of them, and it also includes his lecture on his travels in America."--BOOK JACKET.

Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein's L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E: The Complete Facsimile makes available in print all twelve of the newsletter's original issues along with three supplementary issues.

• "The replacement of ourself with ourselves": the making of LEGEND as a five-pointed star / Matthew Hofer and Michael Golston
• LEGEND / Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray DiPalma, Steve McCaffery, and Ron Silliman
• Appendix one. re: re: legend
• A new five-way collaboration / by Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray DiPalma,Steve McCaffery, and Ron Silliman
• Appendix two. excerpts from the authors correspondence.

"Conceived in 1976 and published in 1980, LEGEND exemplifies the political and linguistic commitments of then-nascent Language writing. Coauthored by Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray DiPalma, Steve McCaffery, and Ron Silliman, the work was composed on typewriters and developed through the mail. The twenty-six poems of the volume bring together every possible permutation of collaborative authorship in one-, two-, three-, and five-author combinations, revealing the evolution of distinctive styles against and in conversation with others. Along with a complete reproduction of the original text, LEGEND: The Complete Facsimile in Context includes a critical introduction by editors Matthew Hofer and Michael Golston, a generous selection of material from the authors' correspondence, and a new collaborative piece by the authors. This book will be an essential resource to students and scholars in twentieth-century poetry and poetics"-- Provided by publisher.