Unoriginal Genius

My new book Unoriginal Genius: Poetry By Other Means in the New Century is due out from the University of Chicago Press in November.

Conceptualisms Old and New

Published in Parkett, 2007

Before conceptual art became prominent in the late 1960s, there was already, so Craig Dworkin has suggested in his “Anthology of Conceptual Writing” for Ubu Web (http://www.ubu.com/), a form of writing identifiable as conceptual poetry, although that term was not normally used to discuss the chance-generated texts of John Cage and Jackson Mac Low or the “word events” of George Brecht and La […]