The Future of Memory

by Bob Perelman

Poetry. Bob Perelman is one of our wittiest poets, but his new book, THE FUTURE OF MEMORY, is as scary as it is funny. It presents the poem itself as doomed human subject in time. The poet is both emblem of Western subjectivity and the very figure of the fool -Rae Armantrout. The absence of theory pulses in my neck, / at least I've thought so, / sitting on the edge of the bed, pulling off my socks. / Break the life-mask of empiricism and, underneath,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0937804754
• ISBN13: 9780937804759
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Roof Books
• Length: 115 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"