Conceptual Writing
Top 10 Conceptual Writing
: I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women, Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century, Sleeping With the Dictionary, Notes on Conceptualisms, The Compleat Purge, Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, Nets, Adjunct: An Undigest, The Cow, Zong!
I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women
| Author | Caroline Bergvall |
| ISBN | 1934254332 |
Conceptual writing is emerging as a vital 21st century literary movement and I’ll Drown My Book represents the contributions of women in this defining moment. Edited by Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place, I’ll Drown My Book takes its name from a poem by Bernadette...
Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century
| Author | Marjorie Perloff |
| ISBN | 0226660613 |
What is the place of individual genius in a global world of hyper-information— a world in which, as Walter Benjamin predicted more than seventy years ago, everyone is potentially an author? For poets in such a climate, "originality" begins to take a back seat to what can be done with other people’s...
| Author | Harryette Mullen |
| ISBN | 0520231430 |
Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, Roget's Thesaurus and The American Heritage Dictionary. In her ménage à trois with these faithful companions,...
| Author | Vanessa Place |
| ISBN | 1933254467 |
Literary Nonfiction. Poetics. "In NOTES ON CONCEPTUALISMS, Place and Fitterman erect the first critical framework toward the understanding of conceptual writing, an emergent early twenty-first century literary movement. Elegantly parsed and carefully dissected, this work fleshes out many...
| Author | Trisha Low |
| ISBN | 0984647554 |
Fiction. Poetry. Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Trisha Low is just another feminist, confessional writer trying to find a good way to deal with all her literary dads. She siphons the remix culture of social media into the binge and purge cycle of an engrossing read, with the emphasis on gross....
Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age
| Author | Kenneth Goldsmith |
| ISBN | 0231149913 |
Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word processing, databasing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, inspire the reinvention of writing? The Internet and the digital environment present writers with new challenges and opportunities...
| Author | Jen Bervin |
| ISBN | 0972768432 |
Poetry. "Jen Bervin has reimagined Shakespeare as our true contemporary. Her little poems sing" Paul Auster. In NETS, poet and artist Jen Bervin strips Shakespeare's sonnets "bare to the nets," chiseling away at the familiar lines to reveal surprising new poems, while pointing obliquely at the unavoidably...
| Author | Peter Manson |
| ISBN | 1859332226 |
While some may love this type of poetry. I could not stand any of it. It is bits and pieces of verbiage thrown together to make an unintelligible, nonsequential babbling of thought. If you are concrete-sequential like me, skip it. While the author is taking segments of conversations and news around him...
| Author | Ariana Reines |
| ISBN | 0977106470 |
1. Reines is brave and honest because she's willing to admit that being socialized as female is, effectively, being trained to be a corpse.
2. This book starts out politely invitational and theoretical, but something terribly scatological happened about 20 pages in where the lingua bacteria...
| Author | M. NourbeSe Philip |
| ISBN | 0819568767 |
In November, 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ship's owners could collect insurance monies. Relying entirely on the words of the legal decision Gregson v. Gilbert--the only extant public document related to the massacre of these...
| Author | Eileen Myles |
| ISBN | 1933517581 |
In her first book of poetry since 2007, legendary poet, critic, and novelist Eileen Myles creates poet and poem anew as she pushes the boundaries of her craft ever closer to the enigmatic core. Snowflake finds the poet awash in an extended and distressed landscape mediated by technology and its distortion...
| Author | Ariana Reines |
| ISBN | 0615181341 |
Now that I am not addressing you But the you” of poetry I am probably doing something horrible and destructive.
But this I” is the I of poetry And it should be able to do more than I can do.
Just a few months after the publication of her prize-winning, instant classic debut The Cow, Ariana Reines...
| Author | Sam Riviere |
| ISBN | 0571321437 |
Sam Riviere's debut, 81 Austerities, began as a blog responding to the spending cuts, and went on in publication to win the 2012 Forward Prize for Best First Collection. A sequel of sorts, the 72 poems in Kim Kardashian's Marriage mark out equally sharpened lines of public and private engagement. Kim...
