Monthly Archives: December 2012

Vanessa Place’s “Miss Scarlett”

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

Over on the Poetry Foundation, The Harriet Blog has a write up of my recent post on Vanessa Place’s “White Out” of Gone with the Wind. The Harriet Blog also notes Place’s current retyping of the novel on Twitter, and … Continue reading →

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On not repeating Gone with the Wind

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

Brian Reed opened his excellent essay on “Postmillennial Poetry and Redirected Language” with a discussion of Vanessa Place’s “Miss Scarlett,” and Place is currently broadcasting Gone with the Wind tweet by tweet through her Twitter feed. But Place has also … Continue reading →

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Poetry and Piracy: Copyright and Poetic Licence

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

Here is a video of a talk I gave recently on copying, copyright, and contemporary poetry with reference to Kim Dotcom, Socrates, Plato, print culture, Hegel, Mitt Romney, J.D. Salinger, Monty Python, Charles Dickens, Richard Prince, Kenneth Goldsmith, Simon Morris, … Continue reading →

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Prigov and Tarasov in Performance

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

Today on Jacket 2, I am delighted to present a guest post from Gerald Janecek on the work of the conceptual artist and writer Dmitri Prigov, whose work is the focus of one chapter of A Common Strangeness. Some time ago, … Continue reading →

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Save 30% on A Common Strangeness

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

Fordham University Press is currently offering a 30% discount on all its books, including A Common Strangeness, which can be purchased here for only US $18.20 until the end of the year. The same discount will be available in January … Continue reading →

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Sean Bonney’s iterations

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

I’ve just added a new post to my Jacket2 commentary. Today’s post is on Sean Bonney’s rewritings of Baudelaire and Rimbaud and the possibility of a revolutionary poetics of iteration. I also compare Bonney’s rewritings to those of Christian Bök. … Continue reading →

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