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
Vanessa Place, Robert Fitterman: Notes on Conceptualisms (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · appropriation, conceptual art, conceptual writing, flarf, language, literary theory, literature, poetics, poetry, sampling, writing
“What is conceptual writing, how does it differ from Conceptual Art, what are some of the dominant forms of conceptualism, where does an impure or hybrid conceptualism fit in, what about the baroque, what about the prosody of procedure, what are the links between appropriation and conceptual writing, how does conceptual writing rely on a new way of reading, a “thinkership” that can shift the focus away from the text and onto the concept, what is the relationship between conceptual writing and technology or information culture, and why has this tendency taken hold in the poetry community now? What follows, then, is a collection of notes, aphorisms, quotes and inquiries on conceptual writing. We have co-authored this text through correspondence, shared reading interests, and similar explorations. Notes on Conceptualisms is far from a definitive text, and much closer to a primer, a purposefully incomplete starting place, where readers, hopefully, can enter so as to participate.”
Publisher Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, NY, 2009
Open Access
ISBN 9781933254463
78 pages
Commentary: Ron Silliman (2009).
Reviews: Thom Donovan (BOMB, 2009), Christopher Higgs (Chapbook Review, 2009), Karla Kelsey (Octopus Magazine, c2010), Ken L. Walker (Coldfront, 2010), John Bloomberg-Rissman (Galatea Resurrects 16, 2011), Alethia Alfonso (Notas, 2011, ES), Joel Kopplin & Kurt Milberger (HTML Giant, 2013).
Dialogue between Vanessa Place and Tania Ørum (Jacket2, 2012)
Kenneth Goldsmith in Conversation (2014)
Filed under booklet | Tags: · aesthetics, avant-garde, conceptual writing, literature, poetry, uncreative writing, writing
“What is uncreative writing? What can writing learn from visual art? How does one write through art and culture? What is language and how should one speak (of) it in this digital age? How have the current technological developments shaped the contemporary scene and sense of poetics, aesthetics, and poetry pedagogy? What is conceptual writing and its relation to the international avant-garde movement? And after all, what is poetry? These are some of the questions addressed by Kenneth Goldsmith in the interview with Francisco Roman Guevara. This discussion – candid and provocative – is a helpful introduction to the ideas of a most significant “writerly” voice in the contemporary space of literary and cultural studies.”
With Francisco Roman Guevara
Publisher De La Salle University Publishing House, Manila, 2014
Critics in Conversation series
ISBN 9789715555968
50 pages