and nervously in his introduction--is there little about the actual content of the work being produced by the early Language poets? To use the metaphor of the "Chinese wall", intended to isolate investment banks from their brokerages, it is perhaps a strategy to allow the writing to be the writing, and the life to be the life. And since Language-centered writing had no interest in the personal, mingling the two would have provided an inaccurate picture of what was going on inside the head of a Charles Bernstein, an Alan Davies, or of the author himself.from The Brooklyn Rail: Memoir: Yin & Lang
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