Barrett Watten

BARRETT WATTEN is Associate Professor of English at Wayne State University and the author of Total Syntax (1985), essays on avant-garde poetics. He was the editor of This (1971-82) and co-editor of Poetics Journal (1982-98). Recent collections of his literary work include Frame (1971-1990) (1997), Bad History (1998), and, forthcoming, Progress/Under Erasure.

BARRETT WATTEN is Associate Professor of English at Wayne State University and the author of Total Syntax (1985), essays on avant-garde poetics. He was the editor of This (1971-82) and co-editor of Poetics Journal (1982-98). Recent collections of his literary work include Frame (1971-1990) (1997), Bad History (1998), and, forthcoming, Progress/Under Erasure. See less