Bøger af Craig Dworkin

Coup de dés (Collection): Books and Ideas after Mallarmé brings together a vast number ofeditions of Mallarmé's chef d'oeuvre as well as many of its historical and contemporary editionsand appropriations by other authors. Mallarmé's arrangement of the poem on opposite pagesturned each side into a compositional entity. Constellations of words on a spread and the interplaybetween the text fragments and the surrounding white-similar to the way a constellation of starsinteracts with the sky-was a metaphor explicitly used and introduced into literature by Mallarmé.His notion of "constellation", for example, is connected to Ulises Carrión's vision of a "new" book."In the old art, to read the last page takes as much time as to read the first one./In the new art thereading rhythm changes, quickens, speeds up," as he wrote in 1975. The richly illustrated bookcontextualizes the perception and appropriations of Mallarmé's masterpiece through criticalessays written by the editor and leading scholars such as Annette Gilbert, Craig Dworkin, LucBoltanski/Arnaud Esquerre, and Ryoko Sekiguchi.Michalis Pichler is a Berlin-based artist, primarily operating independently of the commercialgallery system, and one of the founders and organizers of Miss Read and Conceptual Poetics Day.Pichler's works often make use of found and pre-used material. He treats pages as canvases andcanvases as pages for works of art.

Poetry. ALKALI collects six works, including two desert pastorals describing the sonic and luminescent landscape surrounding the Great Salt Lake, two minimalist geometrical exercises exhausting the typographic limits of two particular oulippean constraints, a restaging of Clark Coolidge's The Crystal Text, and a long lyric essay on the rhetoric of falling in French modernism. Working from the linguistic toward the literary (in Paul de Man's sense of the terms), each of these poems attempts to construct a text of sonic density and impassioned argument from the entirely impersonal, inexpressive, chance motivations of the signifier. Together, they propose a mode of non-expressive poetics that seeks to evade the already cliched styles and tones that have come to characterize the rhetoric of our present-day Conceptualism.

Dictionary Poetics analyses book-length poems from a number of writers who have used particular editions of specific dictionaries to structure their work. Authors include Louis Zukofsky , George Oppen, Clark Coolidge, Bernadette Mayer, Tina Darragh, and Harryette Mullen.

This is a critical approach to reading texts rendered variously illegible - through erasures, excisions, overprintings and rearrangements - by major 20th-century artists and writers.