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Between the Age of Innocence and the Age of Experience comes The Age of Huts. This book brings together for the first time all of the poems in Ron Silliman's Age of Huts cycle, including Ketjak, Sunset Debris, The Chinese Notebook, and 2197, as well as two key satellite texts, Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps, and BART. Each poem offers a radically different approach toward using language to explore the world. One of the founding works of Language Poetry, The Age of Huts is about everything, more or less literally, as each sentence, even each phrase, embarks on its own narrative, linking together to form a large polyphonic investigation of contemporary life. From Ketjak, one of the first poems to employ "the new sentence," to 2197, a serial work that scrambles the vocabulary and grammar of its sentences, The Age of Huts questions everything we have known about poetry in order to see the world anew.

American poetry. --- American literature --- 20th century american poetry. --- 2197. --- 21st century american poetry. --- age of huts cycle. --- american poet. --- american poetry. --- avant garde poetry. --- bart. --- bringing meaning out of work. --- contemporary life. --- disjunction. --- how to see the world. --- ketjak. --- language poetry. --- materiality. --- poems. --- poetics. --- poetry collection. --- poetry. --- polyphonic investigation. --- prose poetry. --- role of the reader. --- sitting up standing taking steps. --- sunset debris. --- the chinese notebook. --- the new sentence. --- united states poetry. --- vocabulary and grammar.