PROGRESS by Barrett Watten

Roof Books, 1985, First edition, 122 pp., 6" X 9", Softcover

Very good

Work by one of the major figures of the San Francisco "Language" poetry scene of the 1970s and 1980s.

"These works argue for finer thought, by being so, poetic processes set in motion that manufacture fresh distillates, achieved particulars." - Geoffrey Young

"Total Syntax is a primary text for any understanding of the determining politics of the world in which we live, literally -- because poetics as politics is the determining imagination . . . .He has done what I had begun to think impossible . . . made articulate and accessible the decisive activity of our present writing." - Robert Creeley