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So you had participants from all over the world. Felix Bernstein cites as examples Sophia Le Fraga, Andrew Durbin, J. Gordon Faylor, Trisha Low, Josef Kaplan, Joey Yearous-algozin, Holly Melgard, Danny Snelson, Steve McLaughlin, Steve Zultanski, while also mentioning in a footnote the Goldsmith-curated project Poetry Will Be Made By All,[25] which contains 1,000 books by 1,000 young poets (in English and several other languages). Art has long ceased to shock. ", "Kenneth Goldsmith's Controversial Conceptual Poetry", "What Happened When A White Male Poet Read Michael Brown's Autopsy As Poetry", http://www.vidaweb.org/why-are-people-so-invested-in-kenneth-goldsmith-or-is-colonialist-poetry-easy/, "Are Conceptual Poets Vanessa Place and Kenneth Goldsmith Racists? For more information on conceptual poetry, read Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, edited by Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith.

Since the object has absolutely no value, it must be the act. I'd say that Flarf is one methodology within conceptualism. Other writers associated with conceptual poetry include, Christian Bök, Robert Fitterman, and Vanessa Place, among others.

Is it limiting? Cage predicted the time in which it would no longer be necessary to make new art, rather the reframing of pre-existing art is all it takes. [22] In the article There's a New Movement in American Poetry and It's Not Kenneth Goldsmith, Cathy Park Hong writes that: "Poetry is becoming progressively fluid, merging protest and performance into its practice.
( Log Out /  That's really pleasurable to read. In 1997 or 1998 three avant-garde poets, me Christian Bök, and Darren Wershler, drinking in a… I mean, I know a couple of rather well-read classicists who don't than Dante's Inferno is worthwhile. Conceptual Writing is Apollo", http://poetryproject.org/wp-content/uploads/PPNL-231-FINAL-FOR-PRINTING.pdf, "Beauty And The Beastly Po-Biz, Part 1 - The Rumpus.net", "Beauty And The Beastly Po-Biz, Part 2 - The Rumpus.net", "US poet defends reading of Michael Brown autopsy report as a poem", "Does Tweeting 'Gone With the Wind' Make This Poet Racist? Poets.org: How is your work informed by your contemporaries/friends working in the field—poets like Christian Bök, Vanessa Place, Robert Fitterman, Caroline Bergvall, others? Marjorie Perloff, to whom Craig Dworkin and Goldsmith have dedicated Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (2011), considers in Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century (2012) that the "paradigmatic work" of the "unoriginal genius" is Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project (which inspired the concept of Goldsmith’s 2015 book, Capital).

Obsessive archiving & cataloging, the debased language of media & advertising; language more concerned with quantity than quality. And thereby it's appealing to these other audiences. A lot of it is happening on the page, and yet it's informed by the fact that you can cut and paste the entire internet. The final selection, an excerpt from his poem “This Window Makes Me Feel,” consists of various expressions of feeling culled from the Web. I think it's a useful term—a useful umbrella term—and it's not really as much of a break as a continuation. You don't get those reactions in the art world. Nutritionless language, meaningless language. Conceptual writing (often used interchangeably with conceptual poetry) is a term which describes a range of experimental texts based on techniques such as appropriation (the "literary ready-made"), texts which may be reduced to a set of procedures, a generative instruction or constraint, a "concept" which precedes and is considered more important than the resulting text(s). Who gave the name and whose idea it was? Conceptual poetry is anything that you can imagine you can get away with. ash content.

which were introduced by the historical vanguards, but used extensively especially since the '90s-2000s, with the advent of self-described … ( Log Out /  And there's a pretty straight path that we plot going through that to the contemporary day. Goldsmith: Well, Craig Dworkin and I just did this anthology, entitled, Against Expression.