The Experimental Literature Cook Off

Guide to Further Reading
for the Experimental Literature Cook Off

Now that the cook off is complete, I thought I would share some links. If you want to know more about experimental literature, conceptual writing, Flarf, Fluxus, OULIPO and that sort of stuff, here is a quick and dirty list of things you might read. So that the list is user-friendly, I divided it according to whether the text as “creative” or “discussion”.

Creative Works

Discussion

Stein, Gertrude, ‘Composition as Explanation‘.

Barth, John, The Literature Of Exhaustion And The Literature Of Replenishment, Limited (Lord John Press, 1982).

Dworkin, Craig, and Kenneth Goldsmith, Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern University Press, 2011).

Perloff, Marjorie, ‘Conceptualisms, Old and New’ <http://marjorieperloff.com/articles/conceptualisms-old-and-new/>.

Place, Vanessa, and Robert Fitterman, Notes on Conceptualisms (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009)

‘Notes on Conceptualisms by Vanessa Place & Robert Fitterman’ <http://www.octopusmagazine.com/Issue12/kelsey.htm>.

‘Robert Fitterman and Vanessa Place’s NOTES ON CONCEPTUALISMS – BOMBLOG’ <http://bombsite.powweb.com/?p=4662>

On "Notes on Conceptualisms" ‘Silliman?s Blog’.

Goldsmith, Kenneth, ‘Flarf is Dionysus. Conceptual Writing is Apollo. by Kenneth Goldsmith : Poetry Magazine [article/magazine]‘ <http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=237176>.

—, ‘Paragraphs on Conceptual Writing’, UbuWeb <http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/goldsmith/conceptual_paragraphs.html>.

‘What is Experimental Literature? ‘, HTMLGIANT

‘Conceptual Writing 101: Reading List’ <http://conceptualwriting101.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html>.

‘conceptual poetry – bookforum.com / syllabi’ <http://www.bookforum.com/booklist/5578>.

‘Conceptual Poetry and Its Others‘. Symposium, The University of Arizona Poetry Center

‘SO WHAT EXACTLY IS CONCEPTUAL WRITING?: an interview with Kenneth Goldsmith – BOMBLOG’ <http://bombsite.powweb.com/?p=4653>.

Acconci, Vito, Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci (The MIT Press, 2006).

Guthrie, Annie, ‘Conceptual Poetry/
Conceptual Interview’ <http://poetrycenter.arizona.edu/enewsletter/April2008/enews0408_concpoet_read.shtml>.

Mohammad, K. Silem, ‘Conceptual Writing’, Lime Tree <http://lime-tree.blogspot.com/2010/04/conceptual-writing.html>.