num_pages: 148
description: 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. Poetry.
language: English
title: way: a poem
titlecomplete: way: a poem
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 102
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: American Book Award, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award
publisher: North Point Press