Description: Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein's L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E: The Complete Facsimile makes available in print all twelve of the newsletter's original issues along with three supplementary issues.
Brief description: Matthew Hofer is an associate professor of English at the University of New Mexico. He is the editor of The Shoshoneans: The People of the Basin-Plateau, Expanded Edition and the coeditor of The Language Letters: Selected 1970s Correspondence of Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, and Ron Silliman (both from UNM Press).
Review Quotes: The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E newsletters contain some of the most incisive readings of some of the most difficult poetry in the twentieth century, and the reviews often reveal as much about the writers as the works under consideration. The journal pioneered what came to be a signature innovation of Language Poetry and one of its lasting legacies: critical, intellectually acute essays in non-discursive and non-expository modes. Here is news that stays news.--Craig Dworkin, editor of The Consequence of Innovation: 21st Century Poetics