Toner

by Ron Silliman

Genres: Poetry

67 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1992

About the author

Ron Silliman has written and edited 30 books to date, most recently articipating in the multi-volume collaborative autobiography, The Grand Piano. Between 1979 & 2004, Silliman wrote a single poem, entitled The Alphabet. In addition to Woundwood, a part of VOG, volumes published thus far from that project have included ABC, Demo to Ink, Jones, Lit, Manifest, N/O, Paradise, (R), Toner, What and Xing. The University of Alabama Press will publish the entire work as a single volume in 2008. Silliman has now begun writing a new poem entitled Universe.

Silliman was the 2006 Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and was a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council as well as a Pew Fellow in the Arts in 1998. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two sons, and works as a market analyst in the computer industry.

Reviews

[Scott Holstad · Rating 4 out of 5]

Typical Silliman. In other words, good!

[Christopher · Rating 5 out of 5]

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
SPEAK
TO DRIVER
WHILE TEXT IS
IN OPERATION


This book is a poetry cup of coffee, maybe more alcohol-like – intoxicating opening of perception, minutia, theory, and pun jumping and juxtaposing all around. Mostly, it is just damn fun to read.