Reconfiliating: Conversations with Conceptual-Affiliated Writers (2015)
Filed under book | Tags: · conceptual writing, interview, literature, poetry
“If poetry’s many communities have agreed on anything this year, it’s that so-called conceptual writing is a genre of stakes. Rather than claiming these stakes for the writers included in this volume, Reconfiliating hopes to show that the term “conceptual writing”—as it gets used online and in critical essays—fails to capture even a small portion of the actual work currently produced.”
Curated by Caleb Beckwith
with J. Gordon Faylor, Danny Snelson and Divya Victor
Afterword by Joseph Mosconi
Publisher Essay Press, Nov 2015
72 pages
Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa (eds.): This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981–) [EN, ES]
Filed under book | Tags: · black people, class, feminism, gender, literature, race, sexuality, women
“This book is a testimony to women of color feminism as it emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores, as co-editor Cherríe Moraga writes, “the complex confluence of identities—race, class, gender, and sexuality—systemic to women of color oppression and liberation.””
First published by Persephone Press, Watertown, MA, 1981
Second edition
Publisher Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, New York, 1983
ISBN 091317503X, 9780913175033
xxvi+261 pages
HT Lisa Nakamura
Third edition, revised & expanded
Publisher Third Woman Press, Berkeley, CA, 2002
ISBN 0943219221, 9780943219226
lviii+370+[8] pages
Commentary: Cassius Adair & Lisa Nakamura (Am Lit, 2017).
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PDF (English, 2nd ed., 1983, 4 MB, updated on 2021-3-16)
PDF (Spanish, 1988, 8 MB, added on 2021-3-3)
PDF (English, 3rd ed., 2002, 14 MB, added on 2021-3-16)
See also Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (1983) and Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought (1995).
Comment (0)Emmett Williams (ed.): An Anthology of Concrete Poetry (1967/2013)
Filed under poetry | Tags: · concrete poetry, language, literature, poetry, visual poetry
“Concrete Poetry is not one style but a cluster of possibilities, all falling in the Intermedium between semantic poetry, calligraphic and typographic poetry, and sound poetry.
It first crystalized out of these earlier modes in the early 1950s in the works of such people as Eugen Gomringer (CH), Carlo Belloli (IT), Dieter Rot (IS), Öyvind Fahlström (SW), the Noigandres Group (Haroldo and Augusto de Campos, Décio Pignatari and others, BR), Carlfriedrich Claus (GDR), Gerhard Rühm, Friedrich Achleitner and H.C. Artmann (AT), Daniel Spoerri and Claus Bremer (DE), and Emmett Williams (US, then living in DE). In recent years a second generation of major figures have added to the movement, including such people as Hansjörg Mayer (DE), Ladislav Novák and Jiří Kolář (CZ), Edwin Morgan and Ian Hamilton Finlay (SC), Bob Cobbing (EN), bp Nichol (CA), Mary Ellen Solt and Jonathan Williams (US), Pierre and Ilse Garnier (FR), Seiichi Niikuni and Kitasono Katue (JP) and many others.
The very fact of the appearance of parallel work more or less independently in so many countries and languages indicates one of the unique aspects of the movement, namely its source being in the development of a new mentality in which values become fused and inter-relationships established on a more complex plain than was the case in the purer, earlier modes of poetry.” (Something Else Press, 1967)
Publisher Something Else Press, New York, 1967
New edition Primary Information, New York, 2013
ISBN 9780985136437
x+342 pages
via Silvio Lorusso
Reviews: Ingrid Melano (Kaleidoscope 2014), Sam Rowe (Chicago Review 2014).
PDF (91 MB)
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