Watten B. Ne to (Not this, eng/russ.ed.; transl.by A. Glazova, A. Dragomoschenko, E. Zakharkiv, R. Mironov, A. Skidan, S. Snytko, O. Sokolova, V. Feschenko, M. Khazin)

Author	Watten B.
Title	Ne to
Description	Barrett Watten (b. 1948) is an American poet and critic who pioneered ‘language writing’ in the United States and is active in poetry today. Most of his texts are built on the non-identity of form and content. They resist the poetry of narrative coherence and communicative ease. The poetic text is constructed and read as a linguopoetic experiment - with its semi-artificial sentences and semantics of constant shifts of focus. However, in these shifts the reader can detect the operation of the purely poetic function of language, when the message turns on itself and begins to generate extraordinary meanings.Such writing is a kind of ‘critical poetry’, realising the principles of critical theory through poetic effects. Inheriting among other influences Russian formalism, Watten proposes a poetics of ‘social formalism’: instead of meaning and content being emptied and remaining the same, the social is reanimated in and realised through its poetic forms.This edition publishes for the first time in Russian and English an extensive selection of the author's works, from his earliest book Opera-texts from 1975 to his most recent poem Notzeit.
Year	2024
Publisher	Polyphem
Pages	424
Cover	paperback
ISBN	978-5-9907122-9-4

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