The Savage Years
The Savage Years was written in 2003, initially as a response to Ron Silliman’s Sunset Debris, in which combinations of dislocated questions soon point away from any object, turning the focus instead on the nature of questioning.
With The Savage Years, Fred Savage became the quite arbitrary choice for a subject to be swallowed up by repetition. Statements, frequently contradictory and semi-sensical, imply in their structure but subvert in their content a reliable construction biographical evidence. Structural repetition is designed to form varying degrees of attention and boredom. It ought to be read out loud.
When performed, there are often new sentences added here and there for each performance..
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