Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein's L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E: The Complete Facsimile

"The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E newsletters contain some of the most incisive readings of some of the most difficult poetry in the twentieth century, and the reviews often reveal as much about the writers as the works under consideration. The journal pioneered what came to be a signature innovation of Language Poetry and one of its lasting legacies: critical, intellectually acute essays in non-discursive and non-expository modes. Here is news that stays news."--Craig Dworkin, editor of The Consequence of Innovation: 21st Century Poetics

"This is an essential text for anyone wanting to understand how American poetry developed over the past half century. It is also full of revelatory insights into the history of struggles over different understandings of the social and political role of language during the theory wars and how writers forged their own new paths." -- Peter Middleton, author of Physics Envy: American Poetry and Science in the Cold War and After