agon : Operating System : 9780986050596 : 0986050598 : 10 Apr 2017 : Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Hybrid Genre. "In the tragi-comic?and worse?chaos of our times?suppose our writing began to appear as letters caught in barcodes. Phrases and bits of words breaking off en route to scanners designed for registering information but not the disturbance of meaning. It is, literally, with this provocative vision that Judith Goldman's AGON begins. Fragments?words with ing or ite or ppeals detached?mark the violence and folly of our weaponized and otherwise benighted cultures. At times, a necessary lyricism wells up without betraying the truth of 'Cumulative transfers By the 'agreed upon' price / the Temp,est has of late stripped the pe,tals away.' There's even more to this many-genred book?one to be lived with, in the urgency of its poetry, its philosophical and socio-political inquiry?font of brilliance that sustains vitally agonistic conversation across perilous divides."?Joan Retallack "The