The Age of Huts (Compleat)

Between the Age of Innocence and the Age of Experience comes *The Age of Huts.* This book brings together for the first time all of the poems in Ron Silliman's *Age of Huts* cycle, including *Ketjak, Sunset* *Debris, The Chinese Notebook,* and *2197,* as well as two key satellite texts, *Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps,* and *BART.* Each poem offers a radically different approach toward using language to explore the world. One of the founding works of Language Poetry, *The Age of Huts* is about everything, more or less literally, as each sentence, even each phrase, embarks on its own narrative, linking together to form a large polyphonic investigation of contemporary life. From *Ketjak,* one of the first poems to employ "the new sentence," to *2197,* a serial work that scrambles the vocabulary and grammar of its sentences, *The* *Age of Huts* questions everything we have known about poetry in order to see the world anew.