"They will die Last Night We have Lived Tomorrow": Traumatic Displacements of the Avant-Garde in Bob Perelman's the Future of Memory‪.‬

[I]n reading the textual poetics of Language writers, what might seem a linguistic swerve from political engagement appears, when focused through the lens of a more historicized account, a symptom of postmodernity, where no facet of contemporary experience--whether personal or public--is left unencoded by consumer culture.--Walter Kalaidjian, 328 INTRODUCTION