The front matter, dead souls
By: Leslie Scalapino.
Series: Wesleyan poetry
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press; Published by University Press of New England; Wesleyan
Published: 1996
Place of publication: [Middletown, Conn.]; Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
Description: "This extraordinary new book is essay-fiction-poetry, an experiment in form, "a serial novel for publication in the newspaper" that collapses the distinction between documentary and fiction. Loosely set in Los Angeles, the book scrutinizes our image-making, producing extreme and vivid images -- hyena, Muscle Beach in Venice, the Supreme Court, subway rides -- in order for them to be real."--Back cover.