num_pages: 54
description: The selection includes prose-poems and poetry from earlier books Truck; Ten Cents; Skyliner; and 9:15; as well as previously unpublished work. Merrill Gilfillan explores the essential content of our culture(s) through a linguistic 'jump-cut' editing technique. He uses any and all the phenomena of human experience as information, and refuses to see any category of experience as inherently more significant than any other: sunset over the petrochemical plants of Elizabeth, N.J.; a string quartet; Mexican table manners; Nixon in Venezuela; a toothache; or gas-pumps in the hills of Kentucky are all equally informative film-clips in his cross-cultural collage.
title: Light Years Selected Early Works 1969-1972
titlecomplete: Light Years Selected Early Works 1969-1972 (A Dynamite book)
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Blue Wind Pr