Table of contents to Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing.
The introductory essays and Table of Contents to Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (2011, Northwestern U Press) are available for download as a PDF. Included are the first essays by the editors are “Why Conceptual Writing? Why Now?” by Kenneth Goldsmith and “The Fate of Echo” by Craig Dworkin.
Table of Contents, pasted from the PDF file, after the jump.
Why Conceptual Writing? Why Now?
Kenneth Goldsmith
The Fate of Echo,
Craig Dworkin
Monica Aasprong,
from Soldatmarkedet
Walter Abish,
from Skin Deep
Vito Acconci,
from Contacts/ Contexts (Frame of Reference): Ten Pages
of Reading Roget’s Thesaurus
from Removal, Move (Line of Evidence): The Grid Locations
of Streets, Alphabetized, Hagstrom’s Maps of the Five
Boroughs: 3. Manhattan
Kathy Acker,
from Great Expectations
Sally Alatalo,
from Unforeseen Alliances
Paal Bjelke Andersen,
from The Grefsen Address
Anonymous,
Eroticism
David Antin,
A List of the Delusions of the Insane: What They Are Afraid Of
from Novel Poem
from The Separation Meditations
Louis Aragon,
Suicide
Nathan Austin,
from Survey Says!
J. G. Ballard,
Mae West’s Reduction Mammoplasty
Fiona Banner,
from The Nam
Derek Beaulieu,
from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Samuel Beckett,
from Molloy
from Watt
Caroline Bergvall,
Via (36 Dante Translations)
Charles Bernstein,
from I and The
Untitled Poem
Ted Berrigan,
An Interview with John Cage
Jen Bervin,
from Nets
Gregory Betts,
from If Language
Christian Bök,
from Busted Sirens
from Eunoia
Marie Buck,
from Whole Foods
William S. Burroughs,
from Nova Express
David Buuck,
Follow
John Cage,
Writing + rough ! e Cantos
Blaise Cendrars,
from Kodak
Tomas Claburn,
from i feel better after i type to you
Elisabeth Clark,
from Between Words
Claude Closky,
+ e First + ousand Numbers Classifi ed in Alphabetical Order
from Mon Catalogue
Clark Coolidge,
from Cabinet Voltaire
from Bond Sonnets
Hart Crane,
Emblems of Conduct
Brian Joseph Davis,
from Voiceover
Katie Degentesh,
The Only Miracles I Know of Are Simply Tricks That
People Play on One Another
Mónica de la Torre,
from Doubles
Denis Diderot,
from Jacques le fataliste et son maître
Marcel Duchamp,
from notes
Craig Dworkin,
from Legion
from Parse
Laura Elrick,
from First Words
Dan Farrell,
from Avail
from The Inkblot Record
Gerald Ferguson,
from The Standard Corpus of Present Day English Language Usage Arranged by Word Length and Alphabetized Within Word Length
Robert Fitterman,
Metropolis 16
from The Sun Also Also Rises
Lawrence Giffin,
Spinoza’s Ethics
Peter Gizzi,
Ode: Salute to the New York School, 1950–1970, A Libretto
Judith Goldman,
from dicktée
from from r’ture/ CENTaur
Kenneth Goldsmith,
from Day
from No. 111 2.7.92-10.20.96
from Soliloquy
from The Weather
Nada Gordon,
Abnormal Discharge
Noah Eli Gordon,
from Inbox
Michael Gottlieb,
from The Dust
Dan Graham,
Exclusion Principle
Poem-Schema
Michelle Grangaud,
from Biographies/ Poetry
Brion Gysin,
First Cut-Up
Michael Harvey,
from White Papers
H. L Hix,
Poem composed of statements made by George W. Bush in January 2003
Yunte Huang,
from Cribs
Douglas Huebler,
from Secrets: Variable Piece .4
Peter Jaeger,
from Rapid Eye Movement
Emma Kay,
from Worldview
Bill Kennedy and Darren Wershler,
from Apostrophe
Michael Klauke
from Ad Infinitum
Christopher Knowles,
from Typings
Joseph Kosuth,
from Purloined: A Novel
Leevi Lehto,
from Päivä
Tan Lin,
from BIB
Dana Teen Lomax,
from Disclosure
Trisha Low,
Confessions
Rory Macbeth,
from The Bible (alphabetized)
Jackson Mac Low,
from Words nd Ends from Ez
Stéphane Mallarmé,
from La dernière mode
from Le livre
Donato Mancini,
Ligature
Peter Manson,
from Adjunct: An Undigest
from English in Mallarmé
Shigeru Matsui,
Pure Poems
Bernadette Mayer,
from Eruditio ex Memoria
Steve McCaffery,
Fish Also Rise
The Kommunist Manifesto
Stephen McLaughlin and Jim Carpenter,
from Issue 1
David Melnick,
from Men in Aida, Book II
Richard Meltzer,
Barbara Mauritz: Music Box
Denny Lile
Maple Leaf Cowpoop Round-Up
Christof Migone,
from La première phrase et le dernier mot
Tomoko Minami,
from 38: + e New Shakespeare
K. Silem Mohammad,
Spooked and Considering How Spooky Deer Are
from Sonnagrams
Simon Morris,
from Getting Inside Jack Kerouac’s Head
from Re-writing Freud
Yedda Morrison,
from Kyoto Protocol
Harryette Mullen,
Bilingual Instructions
Elliptical
Mantra for a Classless Society or Mr. Roget’s Neighborhood
Alexandra Nemerov,
First My Motorola
C. K. Ogden,
Work in Progress by James Joyce
Tom Orange,
I Saw You
Parasitic Ventures,
from All the Names of In Search of Lost Time
George Perec,
Attempt at an Inventory of the Liquid and Solid
Foodstuff s Ingurgitated by Me in the Course of the Year
Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Four
M. NourbeSe Philip,
from Zong!
Vanessa Place,
from Statement of Fact
Bern Porter,
Clothes
Raymond Queneau,
from The Foundations of Literature
Claudia Rankine,
from Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
Ariana Reines,
from The Cow
Charles Reznikoff ,
from Testimony, Volume II: + e United States (1885–1915):
Recitative
Deborah Richards,
from The Beauty Projection
Kim Rosenfield,
The Other Me
Raymond Roussel,
from How I Wrote Certain of My Books
Aram Saroyan,
Untitled Poem
Ara Shirinyan,
from Your Country Is Great
Ron Silliman,
from Sunset Debris
Juliana Spahr,
Thrashing Seems Crazy
Brian Kim Stefans,
from The Vaneigem Series
Gary Sullivan,
Conceptual Poem (WC + WCW)
To a Sought Caterpillar
Nick Thurston,
He Might Find
Rodrigo Toscano,
Welcome to Omnium Dignitatem
Tristan Tzara,
from Dada Manifesto on Feeble and Bitter Love
Andy Warhol,
from a: a novel
Darren Wershler,
from The Tapeworm Foundry
Christine Wertheim,
Finnegans Wanke/ Finnegans Wake (translation)
Wiener Gruppe
ideas for a «record album/ functional» acoustic cabaret
11 abecedaries
William Butler Yeats,
Mona Lisa
Steven Zultanski,
My Death Drive
Vladimir Zykov,
from I Was Told to Write Fifty Words
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