Leslie Scalapino 
It’s go in horizontal 
Selected Poems, 1974–2006

Internationally recognized as one of the most innovative writers in America today, Leslie Scalapino persistently challenges the boundaries of many forms in which she works—poetry, prose, plays, and more. This outstanding volume includes work from sequential and serial poems written over thirty-two years. The poems demonstrate ideas and inventions in writing, and how one writing invention leads to the next. Three series are selected from the long poem
way, about which Philip Whalen said, ‚She makes everything take place in real time, in the light and air and night where all of us live, everything happening at once.‘ Recent poems, such as those from ‚De Lay Rose, ‚ appear to leave the page itself as a single infinite line in which the actions of individuals and occurrences in the outside world are synonymous, mysterious, and simultaneous.
It’s go in horizontal is a dazzling entryway into the oeuvre of a daring and powerful writer.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Collected in Considering how exaggerated music is

From hmmmm in The Woman Who Could Read the Minds of Dogs

Instead of an Animal

From This eating and walking at the same time are associated all right

Considering how exaggerated music is


How Phenomena Appear to Unfold: Note on My Writing


that they were at the beach

From that they were at the beach — aeolotropic series

A Sequence

From Chameleon Series


From The Return of Painting, The Pearl, and Orion/A Trilogy


From the Five Series Poem way, 3 Series in Sequence

Bum Series

The Floating Series

Delay Series


How Phenomena Appear to Unfold

Fin de Siècle 1

Fin de Siècle 2

Fin de Siècle 3


From Crowd and not evening or light


From New Time


From The Front Matter, Dead Souls


The Public World/Syntactically Impermanence


From Resting lightning that’s night, Friendship


Zither & Autobiography

From Zither


From The Tango


From It’s go in / quiet illumined grass /land


Day Ocean State of Stars’ Night

From ‘Can’t’ is ‘Night’

From The Forest is in the Euphrates River —

From De Lay Rose


Acknowledgments

Über den Autor

Leslie Scalapino teaches at Mills College and is a former faculty member at Milton Avery Graduate Program of the Arts at Bard College, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. Among her many books are Day Ocean State of Star’s Night: Poems and Writings 1989 and 1999-2006, Dahlia’s Iris: Secret Autobiography and Fiction, and Zither and Autobiography.