Zone: (1973-2021)

An essential practitioner of the Language movement, Barrett Watten has spent a lifetime writing works that lay bare the way language creates and is created by the swirling social, cultural, and political world we live in. In this monumental collection he creates long ＂correlative＂ works (collating disparate texts, his own and others’) that react to, depict, and theorize our present drastic moment. Line by line, sentence by sentence, they deliver great power and seriousness of intent. -- Norman Fischer

Barrett Watten is a professor of English at Wayne State University. He is the author of Total Syntax and The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics, winner of the 2004 René Wellek Prize. He coedited Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement with Carrie Noland, and A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field, 1982-1998 and Poetics Journal Digital Archive with Lyn Hejinian. A founding member of the Language school movement of poetry, his creative works include Frame: 1971-1990, Progress/Under Erasure, Bad History, and, in progress, Zone.