The Holloway Series in Poetry has always brought the best and the brightest of contemporary poetry to Cal. This Friday, November 18, there will be eight of those best in the same room at the same time. Get ready to rumble, it’s “The Grand Piano.” What began in the cafes of 1970s San Francisco as a small collective of Bay Area poets has emerged over the years as a defining contribution to the rise of “Language Poetry” — the avant garde movement launched in the late ’60s and challenged traditional ideas of narrator, narrative and form with elements of disjunction and longer, prose-style poetry.

 

“The Grand Piano” is the printed culmination of all those years of experimentation. 10 poets including UC Berkeley English professor Lyn Hejinian contributed work to the “Experiment in Collective Autobiography” which has resulted in 10 subsequent publications exploring the years of the collective’s early years. This Friday, eight out of the 10 authors will grace the Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall) at 6:30 p.m.  with not only their wondrous words, but a new performance piece based on their works.

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