1923 & 1970
There you have it. The ampersand is Harvey Brown’s intervention, and you can see immediately why it seems like such an integral part of that edition. Since it was the 1970 edition, not the original publication, that had the lasting impact on at least my generation of poets, I believe that I shall continue to use the ampersand when writing about the book generally, but will use “and” henceforth to distinguish the earlier edition.
RON SILLIMAN has written and edited 40 books, and had his poetry and criticism translated into 16 languages. Silliman was a 2012 Kelly Writers House Fellow, the 2010 recipient of the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a 2003 Literary Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council, and a 1998 Pew Fellow in the Arts. Silliman has a plaque in the walk dedicated to poetry in his home town of Berkeley and a sculpture in the Transit Center of Bury, Lancaster, a part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
