On this episode we discuss Leslie Scalapino’s Seamless Antilandscape, a poem and essay published in a wonderful edition by Katie Lederer’s Spectactular Books series in 1999, with a wrap-around screenprinted cover of a blue spiral on eggshell white.Seamless Antilandscape is a series of "text thangkas" and a critical poetics essay by Scalapino responding to a handful of writings by and interactions with the critic Marjorie Perloff.

Leslie Scalapino was born in Santa Barbara, California, and is associated with the San Francisco side of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry. She began publishing in the 70s and published continuously and prolifically until she passed in 2010. She ran O Books beginning 1986, an influential press that published work by Anne Tardos, Carla Harryman, Michael Davidson, Tom Raworth, Rodrigo Toscano, Norma Cole, P. Inman, Alice Notley, Abigail Child, Robert Grenier, Alan Davies, Ted Pearson, Judith Goldman, and many others, including several books of her own work, and the anthology collections War and Peace**, volumes 2-4 of which were edited with Judith Goldman. Scalapino’s work spans poetry, prose, fiction, multi-media experiment, criticism, and she frequently worked collaboratively with dancers, artists, and other poets to create over the course of her lifetime an incredible body of work that is certainly one of the late 20th and early 21st century’s most influential and idiosyncratic.

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