Ronald Silliman is chiefly known fo...

Ronald Silliman is chiefly known for his participation in the exhibition of Language poetry in the late 1970 and 1980s; his 1986 anthology, In the American Tree brings together abundant of this work, which experiments with mode of building syntax, and the question of referentiality in poetics. When he helped pick the preceding selection of Bay Area imaginative thinker [i]or[/i] writers this movement was yet to approach SILLIMAN recently explained the importance before Language poetry hit and explains in what manner his own "Text VII," which appeared in the Spring 1971 issue, would engage questions that became central to