Drama. "The 'forgotten narrative structure' of GOYA'S L.A. may be thought to be voyeuristically looking in on the visible products of its own invisible narrative mechanisms. These products are the play's characters, who survive the dissociation from structure through the practice of an intellectual nomadism. Scalapino has created a drastic and carnivalesque confrontation between the 'nomadic' interiority where 'learning' can go on and the overwhelming oversight of the 'forgotten structure,' whose own survival depends on its not being known"--Carla Harryman.

Author City: OAKLAND, CA USA

Leslie Scalapino is the author of thirty books of poetry, prose inter-genre-fiction, plays, and essays. Granary Book just published a collaborative book by artist Kiki Smith and Leslie Scalapino, titled The Animal is in the World like Water in Water. Scalapino's It's go in horizontal/Selected Poems, 1974-2006 was published by University of California Press at Berkeley in 2008. Other books of Scalapino's poetry include DAY OCEAN STATE OF STARS' NIGHT (Green Integer), a collection of eight years; ZITHER & AUTOBIOGRAPHY (Wesleyan University Press), The Tango (Granary Press), ORCHID JETSAM (Tuumba), Dahlia's Iris—Secret Autobiography and Fiction (FC2 Publishers); a reprint of the prose work DEFOE by Green Integer; and IT'S GO IN/ QUIET ILLUMINED GRASS/ LAND (The Post-Apollo Press).

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