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LITERARY COLLECTIONS
82 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: Trade Paper
Trade Paper, $20.00 (US $20.00) (CA $27.00)
Publication Date: June 1985
ISBN 9780937804155
Rights: WOR
Roof Books (Jun 1985)
Popular Fiction prints the important poems of Sherry’s mid-career affair with genre writing, enjambment of multiple texts and cultures. As the review by Bernard Welt says, “…it is ultimately not the structure that matters in Sherry’s book so much as what happens when that structure passes through the mind of the reader: how an opinion is formed in the case, how a worldview is built, how words get under the skin.” In this full-length collection comprised of 17 poems ending with “Plus Thirteen,” Sherry expands the contemporary formulations of minimalism as he begins his extended poetic exploration of environmental diversity.
James Sherry is the author of 14 books of poetry and theory and one of the leading proponents of both Language Writing and Ecological Poetics. His books include Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Connection (Palgrave MacMillan), The Oligarch: Rewriting Machiavelli’s The Prince for Our Time (Palgrave MacMillan), Entangled Bank (Chax), Oops! Environmental Poetics, Four For, Our Nuclear Heritage, Lazy Sonnets, In Case, Part Songs. His work has been translated into nine languages including the Chinese edition of Selected Language Poems (Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House: Chengdu), translated by Ziqing Zhang and Huang Yunte. He is the editor of Roof Magazine and Roof Books, a seminal literary publisher, associated with virtually every innovative strategy in English language writing of the past 40 years, publishing about 200 titles of seminal works of language writing, flarf, conceptual poetry, new narrative and environmental poetry and poetics. He started the Segue Foundation in 1977 that has produced over 10,000 events in New York.