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Make It the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media

Posted on January 1, 2019 by Jacob Edmond

I’m delighted to announce that my new book, Make It the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media, is due out from Columbia University Press in June of this year. A brief blurb appears below. For further details, click … Continue reading →

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Russian lessons for conceptual writing

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Jacob Edmond

I’m delighted to see that Postscript: Writing after Conceptual Art, edited by Andrea Andersson, has just been published by the University of Toronto Press. I’ve contributed a chapter (available here through JSTOR) in which I attempt to give anglophone conceptual … Continue reading →

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Svetlana Boym

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Jacob Edmond

I was deeply shocked and saddened to learn last year of the death of Svetlana Boym. A few weeks ago, at the American Comparative Literature Association annual meeting at Harvard University, I joined colleagues, friends, and family for a session … Continue reading →

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Prigov’s concrete poems get bigger

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Jacob Edmond

One of Dmitri Prigov’s Stikhogrammy (poemographs or versographs) about which I write in A Common Strangeness has been blown up to the size of a multistory apartment building as part of an art project in Belyaevo, an area in Moscow … Continue reading →

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Ripples in language

Posted on February 22, 2015 by Jacob Edmond

Stone and Circles on Water (Камень и круги на воде) is the eighteenth in Dmitri Prigov’s series of poems built around the Russian alphabet, or azbuka, and the work that for me most clearly encapsulates Prigov’s “iterative poetics,” about which … Continue reading →

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Dmitri Prigov’s iterative poetics

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Jacob Edmond

My article on Dmitri Prigov’s “iterative poetics” (free download to 17 Jan. 2015) is just out in a special issue of Russian Literature, which also includes illuminating articles by Mary Nicholas, Ksenya Gurshtein, and Dennis Ioffe, who edited the issue. … Continue reading →

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Archive of the Now

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Jacob Edmond

I first attended the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association a decade ago. It was a small affair gathering together a few hundred people on the somewhat desolate outskirts of Ann Arbor. In stark contrast, the ACLA’s latest … Continue reading →

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Poetry Communities, or, Why Everybody’s a Genius

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

“Poetry Communities,” a companion to the conference “Poetry Communities and the Individual Talent” held at the University of Pennsylvania last year, is now online as a feature on Jacket2, edited by Katie L. Price and Jonathan Fedors. The feature includes … Continue reading →

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Book Presence in a Digital Age

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

Here is the first of a four-part series of highlights from the wonderful symposium “Book Presence in a Digital Age” organised by Kiene Brillenburg Wurth, which I was lucky enough to attend last year. Speakers in this clip include Jessica Pressman, … Continue reading →

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Prigov’s visual poems in English

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

I’m very excited that someone is finally having a go at translating Dmitri Prigov’s Stikhogrammy into English. Kristin Reed is a braver soul than me, and it’s wonderful to see her translations of what she terms Prigov’s Versographies published in the … Continue reading →

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