"This groundbreaking and fascinating book has a double value: it provides us with a host of genuinely new readings--of Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen and Susan Howe, Muriel Rukeyser and Laurie Anderson--but it also provides us with the theoretical and cultural tools whereby recent verbal experiments--whether graphemic, morphemic, or generic--may be understood. A terrific accomplishment!"--Marjorie Perloff, author of Wittgenstein's Ladder