Sezgin Boynik: Still Stealing Steel: Historical-Materialist Study of Zaum (2014)
Filed under booklet | Tags: · futurism, language, poetry, zaum
An artistic research on Zaum language conducted in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Publisher Rab-Rab, Tbilisi, 2014
Photography by Minna Henriksson
Open access
[58] pages
PDF
PDF (updated edition, 2017, added on 2025-1-29)
Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov, 3 vols. (1987-1998)
Filed under poetry | Tags: · fiction, futurism, language, literary theory, literature, poetics, poetry, theatre, zaum
“Dubbed by his fellow Futurists the “King of Time”, Velimir Khlebnikov (1885–1922) spent his entire brief life searching for a new poetic language to express his convictions about the rhythm of history, the correspondence between human behavior and the “language of the stars.” The result was a vast body of poetry and prose that has been called hermetic, incomprehensible, even deranged. Of all this tragic generation of Russian poets (including Blok, Esenin, and Mayakovsky), Khlebnikov has been perhaps the most praised and the more censured.”
Edited by Charlotte Douglas (1), Ronald Vroon (2-3)
Translated by Paul Schmidt
Publisher Harvard University Press, 1987-98
ISBN 0674140451 (1), 067414046X (2), 0674140478 (3)
xii+452 & xii+403 & x+274 pages
Reviews: Cooke (of Vol 1, SEER 1989), Yastremski (of Vol 2, SEEJ 1990).
1. Letters and Theoretical Writings (1987, 29 MB)
2. Prose, Plays, and Supersagas (1989, 17 MB)
3: Selected Poems (1998, 10 MB)
More from Khlebnikov (incl 6-volume Russian collection)
Khlebnikov on Ubuweb Sound
Kenneth Goldsmith: Theory (2015) [EN, FR]
Filed under artist publishing | Tags: · language, literature, poetics, poetry, theory, writing
“Theory offers an unprecedented reading of the contemporary world: 500 texts – from poems and musings to short stories – printed on 500 pages assembled in the form of a ream of paper. Curated by the author-poet, this collection maps out the various issues and trends in contemporary literature in a world currently being shaken up by everything online and digital, and calls for the reinvention of creative forms.”
Edition directed by Mathieu Cénac and David Desrimais
Publisher Jean Boîte, Paris, May 2015
ISBN 9782365680103 (EN)
500 pages
Theory (English, cover, inner side of wrapper, label)
Théorie (French, trans. Léa Faust, cover, label)