Georgetown Peabody Library

Conceptualisms, the anthology of prose, poetry, visual, found, e- & hybrid writing as contemporary art, edited by Steve Tomasula

eng

Includes bibliographical references

illustrations

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non fiction

Conceptualisms

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edited by Steve Tomasula

the anthology of prose, poetry, visual, found, e- & hybrid writing as contemporary art

"Anyone who looks beyond the bestseller lists can see that the literary landscape outside its commercial walls is just as varied as that of visual art, just as wild, just as conceptual: novels in the form of dioramas, narratives read through virtual-reality glasses, or told as a series of tweets, stories told as recipes, poems in skywriting, genetic code, pixels, skin-as well as print and sound. The 100+ prose works and poems that make up Conceptualisms all have the strangeness authors have always given ordinary speech in order to transform it into literature. In fact, this strangeness, or unfamiliarity, may be the very core of what makes writing literature, and pushed to its boundaries, what makes literature conceptual. Experimental, conceptual, avant-garde, hybrid, surfiction, fusion, radical, slip-stream, avant-pop, postmodern, self-conscious, innovative, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writing, alternative, anti- or new literature ... Across the years, a variety of names have been used to describe fiction, poetry and hybrid writing that, like conceptual visual art, foregrounds its ideas, explores new forms, challenges mainstream writing traditions, strives for ways to speak to the present. Along with whatever else they do, they ask, Why isn't this also literature?-and keep the boundaries of literature flexible and unresolved. Now, for the first time, here is an anthology that offers an overview of this other tradition as it lives in the early decades of the 21st century. The first major anthology of this other tradition, Conceptualisms presents writing by over 90 authors, across three generations, representing a plethora of aesthetics and approaches to their subjects. Readers will recognize authors who have shaped the nature of contemporary writing, such Lydia Davis, Charles Bernstein, Nathaniel Mackey, David Foster Wallace, and Claudia Rankine. They'll also find authors, and responses to the canon, that they haven't yet encountered. Conceptualisms is a book of ideas for writers, teachers and scholars, as well as readers who wonder how many ways literature can live"--, Provided by publisher

Introduction -- 1. Writing Language Writing : A Preface (Of Sorts). The Shout Artist (Online) / R. Henry Nigl ; The Speed Of Zoom / Kass Fleisher ; Non-Additive Postulations / Scott Helmes ; The Division Of The Soul / Scott Helmes ; from Notable American Women / Ben Marcus ; China / Bob Perelman ; Confession / Bob Perelman ; Thought Experiment / Cole Swensen ; Should Something Happen To The Heart / Cole Swensen ; How Photography Has Changed The Human Face / Cole Swensen ; Chaïm Soutine : Reeling Trees / Cole Swensen ; Translation And The Oulipo : The Case Of The Persevering Maltese / Harry Mathews ; from The Vertical Interrogation Of Strangers / Bhanu Kapil ; from My Life / Lyn Hejinian ; Delay Series / Leslie Scalapino ; Business Personals / John Ashbery ; from Novel Pictorial Noise / Noah Eli Gordon ; from Scorch Atlas / Blake Butler ; from Adorno's Noise / Carla Harryman -- 2. The Double Helix Of Contemporary Writing & Contemporary Thought. The Lie Of Art / Charles Bernstein ; Thank You For Saying You're Welcome / Charles Bernstein ; Jaques Derrida Writes Postcards To Himself From A Diner In Winesburg, Indiana / Michael Martone ; Story / Lydia Davis ; from Under Virgo / Joe Amato ; A Little Song Of Suffering On Behalf Of Prose / William H. Gass ; from Citizen / Claudia Rankine ; Finitude : From The Permanent Collection / Jonathan Safran Foer ; Say: "Parsley" (Online) / Caroline Bergvall ; Reduced / David Foster Wallace ; Altmann's Tongue (Online) / Brian Evenson ; House Rules / Brian Evenson ; Brevity / Deb Olin Unferth ; Some Machines / Lucy Corin ; from The Book Of Beginnings And Endings / Jenny Boully ; The Chronology Of Water / Lidia Yuknavitch ; Draft 95 / Rachel Blau Duplessis ; Erg / Rachel Blau Duplessis ; Confluence / Percival Everett ; The Wavemaker Falters / George Saunders ; The Return Of The Dark Children / Robert Coover ; from Meadow Slasher / Joshua Marie Wilkinson ; The Reader / Steven Ross Smith --3. Writing Technologies/Digital Wor(L)Ds. from Autosummarize / Jason Huff ; Dakota (Online) / Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries ; Nippon (Online) / Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries ; The Boat (Online) / Nam Le With Matt Huynh, Kylie Boltin, and Matt Smith ; What We Will (Online) / John Cayley with Douglas Cape and Giles Perring ; High Muckamuck (Online) / The High Muck A Muck Collective Including Fred Wah, Jin Zhang, Nicola Harwood, Thomas Loh, and Bessie Wapp ; The Yellow Pages (Online) / Charles Bernstein ; Liberty Ring! (Online) / Stephanie Strickland and Ian Hatcher ; The Nature Of The Creative Process (Online) / Lance Olsen with Tim Gutherie ; 10:01 (Online) / Lance Olsen with Tim Gutherie ; Queerskins (Online) / Illya Szilak and Cyril Tsiboulski ; The Gathering Cloud (Online) / J.R. Carpenter ; Henry (Online) / David Jhave Johnston ; Ouadane (Online) / David Jhave Johnston ; Silence / Alan Bigelow ; Last Words / Alan Bigelow ; My Life In Three Parts (Online) / Alan Bigelow ; V[R]Erses : An XR Story Series (Online) / Mez Breeze ; Hearts And Minds : The Interrogations Project (Online) / Scott Rettberg and Roderick Coover ; from Of The Subcontract, Or Principles Of Poetic Right / Nick Thurston -- 4. Architecture Of The Page/Writing As Visual Form/Visual Form As Writing. Blue Poem Girl / Lesley Dill ; from Love In A Dead Language, "The Kama Sutra Classic Comic" / Lee Siegel ; from Norratology / Johanna Drucker ; from Changing / Lily Hoang ; from A Humument / Tom Phillips ; from Woman's World / Graham Rawle ; from Bed Hangings / Susan Howe and Susan Bee ; Be-Lie-Ve & Absolute-Relative / Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin ; Runaway Tongue / Douglas Kearney -- 5. Clouds, Collage & The Aesthetics Of Ripping & Mixing. The Answer (Online) / Niels Plenge with Charles Bernstein ; Drone-Space Modulator (Online) / Davis Schneiderman ; from House Of Leaves / Mark Z. Danielewski ; So What Else Is New? / Frank Rogaczewski ; The Fate Of Humanity In Verse / Frank Rogaczewski ; from Parse / Craig Dworkin ; from Between Page And Screen / Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse ; 88 Constellations For Wittgenstein (To Be Played With The Left Hand) (Online) / David Clark --6. Reworking The Past & The Future & The Present. Before Time / Charles Bernstein ; Amberianum / Charles Bernstein ; Here / Richard McGuire ; Akokli (Goat) Creek / Fred Wah ; Havoc Nation / Fred Wah ; Hamill's Last Stand / Fred Wah ; Chain / Fred Wah ; The Poem Called Syntax / Fred Wah ; (Sentenced) / Fred Wah ; Bilingual Instructions / Harryette Mullen ; Black Nikes / Harryette Mullen ; Coals To Newcastle, Panama Hats From Ecuador / Harryette Mullen ; Denigration / Harryette Mullen ; Sleeping With The Dictionary / Harryette Mullen ; The Forest Of Mandatory Innocence / Anna Joy Springer with Rachel Carns and Jane O'Neil ; The Forest Of Peril That's Real / Anna Joy Springer with Rachel Carns and Jane O'Neil ; The Forest Of Good Bad Intentions / Anna Joy Springer with Rachel Carns and Jane O'Neil ; The Not Fake Parallel Forest / Anna Joy Springer with Rachel Carns and Jane O'Neil ; No Escape Hatch In The Forest (Online) / Anna Joy Springer with Rachel Carns and Jane O'Neil ; Coyote Takes Us Home / Michael Mejia ; Deer / Carole Maso ; from Europeana : A Brief History Of The Twentieth Century / Patrik Ourednik ; And You Are? / Stacey Levine ; from The People Of Paper / Salvador Plascencia ; A Star Wars Tale / Kate Bernheimer ; The Wild Child / Rikki Ducornet ; Dream / Hank Lazer ; Torah / Hank Lazer ; INTER(IR)RUPTIONS 5 / Hank Lazer ; "Winter" from Selling The Farm : Descants From A Recollected Past / Debra Di Blasi ; Future Prosthetic? / Lynne Tillman -- 7. Sound Writing. The White Pages / Steve McCaffery ; Song of the Andoumboulou ; 18, 19 & 20 (Online) / Nathaniel Mackay ' Stepping Into The River (Online) / David Antin ; All Hands Meeting (Online) / Ian Hatcher ; from Frank / R.M. Berry ; from Men In Aida / David Melnick - 8. DNA, Found Scores, Machine Writing & Other Post-Literature Literature. Black Box Theater / David Buuck ; United 93 / David Buuck ; from Tragedia / Vanessa Place ; from ppg 256 / Nick Montfort ; from Skin / Shelley Jackson ; Spreeder : For EPC20 4am-5am Sept 11th 2014 (Part 1) (Online) / Jhave ; Blopoetry / Eduardo Kac ; The Xenotext Experiment / Christian Bok - 9. Contributor Statements And Biographies (Online)