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
