Kenneth Goldsmith

Kenneth Goldsmith (1961) is the author of ten books of poetry, founding editor of the online archive UbuWeb, and the editor I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews, which is the basis for an opera, "Trans-Warhol," premiered in Geneva in March of 2007. An hour-long documentary on his work, "Sucking on Words" premiered at the British Library in 2007. From 1996-2009, Goldsmith was the host of a weekly radio show on New York City's WFMU. He teaches writing at The University of Pennsylvania, where he is a senior editor of PennSound, an online poetry archive. He held the The Anschutz Distinguished Fellow Professorship in American Studies at Princeton University for 2009-10 and received the Qwartz Electronic Music Award in Paris in 2009. In 2011, he co-edited, Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing and published a book essays, Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age. In 2013, he was appointed the Museum of Modern Art's first Poet Laureate. He resides in New York City with his wife, artist Cheryl Donegan, and his two sons. (Source)

Works

Fiction, Poetry

• No. 110 10.4.93-10.7.93, Lodz: Artists Museum, 1993, PDF. Chapbook.
• with Joan La Barbara, 73 Poems, Permanent Press, 1994. [1]
• No. 109 2.7.93-12.15.93, New York: Bravin Post Lee, 1994, [14] pp, PDF. Chapbook.
• No. 111.2.7.93-10.20.96, Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1997, 606 pp, HTML, PDFs: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7.
• Soliloquy, New York: Bravin Post Lee, 1997, (edition of 50); repr., New York: Granary Books, 2001, 487 pp, HTML, PDF, HTML.
• Gertrude Stein on Punctuation, Newton, NJ: Abaton Books, 1999, PDF. Chapbook.
• 6799, zingmagazine, 2000, 92 pp, PDF.
• Fidget, Toronto: Coach House, 2000, 107 pp, Applet, HTML.
  • Inquieto, trans. Carlos Bueno Vera, intro. Esteban Pujals, afterw. Marjorie Perloff, Segovia La Uña Rota, 2014, 159 pp. (Spanish)
• Head Citations, Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 2002, 88 pp, HTML. Review: Fama.
• Day, Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 2003, 836 pp, PDF, PDF. [2]. Reviews: Ford, Nufer (Muse Apprentice Guild), Stefans, Raven (Bomb), Goode (Gig), Rubinstein (Art in America).
• The Weather: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall, Los Angeles: Make Now, 2005, 120 pp. Reviews: Levine (Bookforum), Huppatz, Zultanski (Rain Taxi), Wershler (PoMo Cult).
• Traffic, Los Angeles: Make Now, 2007, 115 pp, HTML, PDF. Reviews: Huppatz, Zultanski (Rain Taxi), Perloff, Wershler (PoMo Cult).
• All The Numbers From Numbers, /ubu Editions, 2008, 21 pp, PDF.
• Sports, Los Angeles: Make Now, 2008, PDF. Reviews: Thomson (Dazed&Confused), Fama, Huppatz, Zultanski (Rain Taxi), Wershler (PoMo Cult).
• Seven American Deaths and Disasters, New York: powerHouse Books, 2013, 176 pp, Log, EPUB.
• Theory, Paris: Jean Boîte, 2015, 500 pp, Log, PDF.
  • Théorie, trans. Léa Faust, Paris: Jean Boîte, 2015, 500 pp, Log, PDF. (French)
• Capital: New York, Capital of the 20th Century, Verso, 2015, 928 pp, ARG. [3]

Nonfiction

• editor, I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews, New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004.
  • Interviews mit Andy Warhol, intro. Klaus Theweleit, trans. Susanne Höbel, Kippenheim: Liebig, 2005, 381 pp. (German)
  • Entretiens: 1962-1987, trans. Alain Cueff, Paris: Bernard Grasset, 2006, 405 pp. (French)
  • Będę twoim lustrem: wywiady z Warholem, trans. Marcin Zawada, Warsaw: Twój Styl, 2006, 391 pp. (Polish)
  • Wo jiang shi ni de jing zi: An diWo huo er fang tan jing xuan, Beijing: San lian shu dian, 2007, 463 pp. (Chinese)
  • Entrevistas: 1962-1987: treinta y siete entrevistas con el maestro del pop, intro. Reva Wolf, afterw. Wayne Koestenbaum, trans. Ferran Esteve, Barcelona: Blackie Books, 2010, 559 pp. (Spanish)
• Letter To Bettina Funcke / Brief an Bettina Funcke, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2011, 35 pp. (English)/(German)
• editor, with Craig Dworkin, Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press, 2011, Log, PDF.
• Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, New York: Columbia University Press, 2011, Log, EPUB, HTML.
  • Escritura no-creativa: la gestión del lenguaje en la era digital, trans. Alan Page, México, D.F.: Tumbona, 2015, 246 pp. (Spanish)
• Against Translation: Displacement Is the New Translation, Paris: Jean Boîte, 2016, 8 x 32 pp. 8 books in a box. [4] (English),(French),(Spanish),(German),(Chinese),(Japanese),(Russian),(Arabic)
• Wasting Time on the Internet: The Art of Mindless Surfing, HarperCollins, 2016, 224 pp. [5]
• The PXL-MAD Lectures, eds. Arne De Winde, Evelin Brosi and Kris Latoir, Leuven: Het Balanseer, 2017, 100 pp. [6]

More texts

Interviews

• Marjorie Perloff, "Conversation with Kenneth Goldsmith", Jacket 21, Feb 2003.

Literature

• Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory 12(7): "Kenneth Goldsmith and Conceptual Poetics", intro. Barbara Cole and Lori Emerson, Strathroy, ON, Fall 2005, 172 pp. [7]
  • Marjorie Perloff, "‘Moving Information’: On Kenneth Goldsmith’s The Weather", Open Letter 12:7, Fall 2005, pp 85-95.
• Marjorie Perloff, "Conceptual Bridges, Digital Tunnels: Kenneth Goldsmith's Traffic", in Perloff, Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century, University of Chicago Press, 2010, pp 146-166.
• Marjorie Perloff, "Towards a Conceptual Lyric: From Content to Context", Jacket2, 28 Jul 2011. An analysis of Goldsmith’s 2011 performance at the White House.
• Jacquelyn Ardam, "The ABCs of Conceptual Writing", Comparative Literature Studies 51:1, 2014, pp 132-158.
• Katy Waldman, "Frontiers of the Stuplime", Slate, 27 Apr 2015.
• Alec Wilkinson, "Something Borrowed", The New Yorker, 5 Oct 2015.
• Leonard Villa-Forte, O autor como apropriador, Serrote 23, Aug 2016. (Brazilian Portuguese)

See also

• UbuWeb

Links

• Profile on EPC
• Works on UbuWeb
• Show on WFMU
• Printing Out the Internet on KnowYourMeme
• Biography in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry