NUPoD: Print on Demand Poetry: Making Books After the Internet (2015)

“This course operates at the intersection of creative writing, media theory, and the history of the book. Since the written word overtook the Homeric epic poem as a kind of communal Wikipedia, poetry has been less about communicating information and more about lyric expression. Recently, digital technologies have been seen to present this same challenge to the book. Like poetry, we might say that the book isn’t dead, it has simply lost its claim as the primary source of information. Over the last two decades, some of the most interesting works of art and poetry have turned to the book in both form and content, as both inspiration and fallen idol. It has never been easier for writers to publish, not just on Twitter and Facebook, but across a range of Print on Demand (POD) platforms for the printed book. This course examines recent works of poetry alongside new developments in print technologies. From Seth Siegelaub’s The Xerox Book (1968) to new works of POD poetry published throughout the quarter (TBA, 2015), we will study the emergence of innovative forms of writing the book under the influence of digital networks.”

Daniel Scott Snelson, Northwestern University, Fall Quarter, 2015
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Ulises Carrión: Second Thoughts (1980)

“This book includes the theoretical and polemical works by Ulises Carrión from the Other Books and So Archief. Covering themes as bookworks, rubber-stamps and mail-art, these texts are here for the first time assembled in one volume, after having been published in periodicals and catalogues in various countries. For this edition, numerous annotations (references and anecdotes) have been adddd by the author.” (from p 1)

Included essays: “The New Art of Making Books”, “From Bookworks to Mailworks”, “Rubber Stamp Theory and Praxis”, “Rubber Stamp Art”, “Mail Art and the Big Monster”, “Table of Mail Art Works”, “Personal Worlds or Cultural Strategies?”, “Bookworks Revisited”.

Publisher VOID Distributors, Amsterdam, 1980
72 pages
via Román Luján, via nallelyyolanda7617, HT Valerio

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WorldCat

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JPGs (at Lomholt Mail Art Archive)

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Charles Alexander (ed.): Talking the Boundless Book: Art, Language, & the Book Arts (1995)

Essays from Art & Language: Re-Reading the Boundless Book, a Minnesota Center for the Book Arts Symposium, 1994: Dick Higgins, Steven Clay, Johanna Drucker, Charles Bernstein, Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., Susan Bee, Toshi Ishihara & Linda Reinfeld, Katherine Kuehn, Jo Anne Paschall, Colette Gaiter, Alison Knowles, Byron Clercx, Brad Freeman, Karen Wirth.

Publisher Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, 1995
ISBN 1879832097, 9781879832091
144 pages

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