Document 16: DE/Books
[for Donna Stonecipher] Over two weeks in June, I traveled to eight German cities—Frankfurt, Goslar, Kassel, Munich, Nuremberg (including Erlangen and Fürth), Jena, Leipzig and Berlin—attended the...
View ArticleDocument 17: DE/Exhibitions and Events
[for Carla Harryman] The following chronology documents two weeks of intensive travels in the zone of the aesthetic, under the aspect of the political, in Germany. I accompanied Carla Harryman, who had...
View ArticleDocument 18: D/Books/Annotated
[in memory of Ron Allen] Returning to Detroit from Germany, I continued my frenzy for discovery in an afternoon session at John K. King Books, a monument to the material text located off a ramp of the...
View ArticleDocument 19: Books @MLA/Gloucester
[for Sarah Ruddy] In lieu of a list of resolutions for the New Year, a bibliography of books acquired at the recent MLA in Boston and on a side trip to Gloucester may point toward some of its promises....
View ArticleDocument 20: Modernism and Value
Modernism and the Abstraction of Value: Poetry and Political Economy in transition (1927-38) During this recent era, linguistic understandings of political economy found purchase for a wealth of...
View ArticleDocument 22: OOO and Finance Capital
N. Katherine Hayles, “Speculative Realism and Speculative Finance: Exploring the Connections.” The 2013 Dennis Turner Memorial Lecture, Department of English, Wayne State University, 5 April 2013. [KH...
View ArticleDocument 23: Constructivist Poland
An annotated bibliography from travels to Lodz and Warsaw, April 2013, with apologies for the lack of Polish characters and diacritics. Modern History Czerwinska-Rydel, Anna. W poszukiwaniu swiatla:...
View ArticleEvent 32: I Met (Berkeley/Oakland/SF)
I Met (Berkeley/Oakland/SF) 9-13 May 2013 (After On Kawara) Amy Smith Suzanne Stein Jan Watten Emilie Watten Jamie Brunson Karen Yandow Randy Hussong Suzy Barnard Betty Jo Costanza Clint Imboden Brian...
View ArticleDocument 24: Ecstasy of Bookstores
A listing of titles acquired in my recent tour of Bay Area book sellers. Literary and Cultural Theory Brill, Dorothée. Shock and the Senseless in Dada and Fluxus. Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth University...
View ArticleDocument 26: Nonsite Politics
The day Detroit declared bankruptcy–with a population loss of over 50%, and with 18 to 20 billion debt–this was the scene in the alley behind my studio in the Canfield Lofts, in the pleasant and...
View ArticleDocument 27: A Guide to Poetics Journal
A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field, 1982–1998 Ed. Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten Wesleyan University Press, 2013 A Guide to Poetics Journal, the print component of a hybrid...
View ArticleDocument 28: In Memory
In memory Raymond Henry Watten 20 August 1922–23 August 2013 Minneapolis, MN–Santa Rosa, CA HOME On Summit Street across from a marble monument, a large spray- painted sign with his initials in red...
View ArticleDocument 29: Books (CN AU NZ)
China Ancient Chinese Ceramics Gallery. Museum catalogue. Shanghai: Shanghai Museum, n.d. Chen Haiwen, ed. Old Industries in Shanghai. Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, 2010....
View ArticleDocument 30: Digital Archive
Wesleyan University Press announces publication of Poetics Journal Digital Archive ed. Barrett Watten and Lyn Hejinian A complete collection of key texts in the development of contemporary poetics...
View ArticleDocument 31: Zero Hour
Just published in an interdisciplinary, transnational essay collection Barrett Watten, “Zero Hour/Stunde Null: Destruction and Universals at Mid Century” in Die Amerikanische Reeducation-Politik Nach...
View ArticleDocument 32: Note on Whiteness
The current discussion on the “whiteness of the avant-garde,” following Cathy Park Hong’s article in the journal Lana Turner, has brought up the question of whether avant-garde poets fail to deal with...
View ArticleDocument 33: Poem on Whiteness
Reaching further back into my personal archive of whiteness, I find this poem—written in Iowa City about 1971 or ’72 and published in 1975, on the theme. It is the second poem in my first book,...
View ArticleDocument 34: Les Revues
The following is Martin Richet’s translation of “Magazines,” the first prose poem in Opera—Works (1975); it appears in the first issue of his handsomely produced translation journal Jongler (ordering...
View ArticleDocument 35: May Day, 1975
It is forty years since the Fall of Saigon, and the first event I record, in my lead piece in volume 2 of The Grand Piano, recalls my activities on that day. I hope it still means something to put this...
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