SCALAPINO, Leslie
way

Leslie Scalapino’s way represents, in the words of one critic, “a refusal to limit the potential of experience.” Animals, events, gestures are examined, shuffled, monitored, creating a multilayered poem whose constant shifts and pluralities lay bare the latent sexual and social tensions that are rarely permitted expression. With relentless, exacting attention to the multiplicities contained in seemingly everyday observations—a policeman’s glance, a woman in a theater taking a hat from a man’s head—Scalapino proves herself a master at confronting the cerebral manifestations of obsession and alienation.

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Published by North Point Press, 1988
Poetry