Tag Archives: Jacket2

Defining poetry

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Jacob Edmond

I’ve been anything but quick in answering Katie Price’s “quick question” on Jacket2. Now, my response finally joins those of Amy Catanzano, Bob Perelman, and Brian M. Reed. Each of us was asked to write a 500-word response to the question: … 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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Kenneth Goldsmith unpacks Walter Benjamin’s library

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

When Dmitri Prigov explores the relationship between the book as material object and endlessly repeating copy, he anticipates a similar interest in the relationship between copy and singular material instantiation in Anglophone conceptual writing. One of the leading figures in … Continue reading →

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Iteration and Jonathan Stalling’s Yíngēlìshī

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

“Like Place’s iterations of Gone with the Wind, Jonathan Stalling’s Yíngēlìshī 吟歌丽诗 also takes as its impetus the copying of another text and also addresses racial stereotyping and the negative attitude toward accents and dialects of English that differ from … Continue reading →

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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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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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Vanessa Place’s Replacements

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

I’ve added a new post to my Jacket2 “Iterations” commentary. This one is on Vanessa Place and her “Boycott Project,” which involves taking various feminist texts and replacing all female-gendered words with their male counterparts. I first came across the … Continue reading →

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Revolutions per Minute: Charles Bernstein

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

I have a new post on my Jacket2 “Iterations” commentary. This post focuses on Charles Bernstein and draws on and augments material from A Common Strangeness. In the essay “The Conspiracy of Us” (first published in 1979, in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E), Charles … Continue reading →

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Revolution with a Twist: Kamau Brathwaite

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

I have begun what will be a series of posts on the poetics of iteration for Jacket2 under four broad headings: revolution, copyright, translation, and the book. My first post is on “Revolution with a Twist” and draws on the … Continue reading →

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Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, 1946–2012

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

              With great sadness, I learnt yesterday of the passing of a great poet and a friend: Arkadii Dragomoshchenko. I have written a brief commentary about Arkadii as the first post in my commentary on … Continue reading →

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