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  1. ↑ "Poetics becomes a site for the construction of examples (the Objectivists and the New Americans; conceptual and site-specific art), even as it took place as a part of the larger development of literary and cultural theory in the 1970s and 1980s. Poetry and poetics, then, were crucial sites where the turn to language was articulated, due to the same cultural factors that led to the rise of theory." From A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field, 1982–1998 by Lyn Hejinian, Barrett Watten
  2. ↑ "From 1971 to 1974 he collaborated on This magazine with Robert Grenter (whose first issue was, according to Bob Perelman, "as much of an originary moment as Language writing can be said to have") and continued as the sole editor until 1982. In addition to the magazine, This Press also published many books significant for the development of innovative poetry." [5] p. 357
  3. ↑ "The importance of Watten’s writing has been acknowledged since the mid 1970s by experimentalist poets and more recently by a growing critical and academic readership." [5]
  4. ↑ “320 poets and performers were featured in the 153 events of the series.” [7]
  5. ↑ This volume brings together six previously published works of poetry from the previous two decades: Opera—Works (1975); Decay (1977); Plasma/Paralleles/"X" (1979); 1–10 (1980); Complete Thought (1982); and Conduit (1988)—along with two previously uncollected texts—City Fields and Frame.
  6. ↑ This work, which consists of ten volumes, is described as an "experiment in collective autobiography by ten writers identified with Language poetry in San Francisco".

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  17. ↑ For additional details, commentary, and links see Barrett Watten's piece How The Grand Piano Is Being Written Archived June 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  18. ↑ "The René Wellek Prize Citation 2004". American Comparative Literature Association. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  19. ↑ "Comparative Literature Prizes for 2004". Comparative Literature. 58 (3). Duke University Press: xi–xiii. 2006. JSTOR   4125381.
  20. ↑ Simpson, Megan (1996). "An Interview with Carla Harryman". Contemporary Literature. 4 (37): 511–532. doi:10.2307/1208770. JSTOR   1208770.
Barrett Watten
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Barrett Watten reading at the Prague Microfest in May 2011
BornOctober 3, 1948
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