Craig Dworkin
Craig Dworkin is an American poet, critic, editor, and Professor of English at the University of Utah.[1][2][3] He is founding senior editor of Eclipse, an online archive of 20th-century small-press writing and 21st-century born-digital publications.[4][5]
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Born | Bloomington, Indiana | January 18, 1969
Occupation | Poet, critic, editor, professor |
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Education and career
Dworkin received his BA from Stanford University and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.[2] He was an assistant[6] and associate professor[7] at Princeton University from 1998–2004 before joining the faculty at the University of Utah, where he is a Professor of English.[1]
Dworkin has written a number of books of poetry, including Helicography (Punctum Books, 2021),[8] The Pine-Woods Notebook (Kenning Editions, 2019),[9] Def (Information as Material, 2018),[10] Twelve Erroneous Displacements and a Fact (IAM, 2016),[11] Alkali (Counterpath Press, 2015),[12] The Crystal Text (After Clark Coolidge) (Compline, 2012),[13] Motes (Roof Books, 2011),[14] The Perverse Library (IAM, 2010),[15] and Strand (Roof, 2005).[16]
Dworkin is the author of four scholarly monographs: Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality (Chicago, 2020);[17] [18] Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography (Fordham, 2020);[19] No Medium (MIT, 2013),[20] in which he discusses works that are "blank, erased, clear, or silent";[21] and Reading the Illegible (Northwestern, 2003).[22] Edited collections include Against Expression (co-edited with Kenneth Goldsmith, Northwestern, 2011), in which he coined the term "conceptual writing";[23] The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound, co-edited with Marjorie Perloff (Chicago, 2009); and The Consequence of Innovation: 21st Century Poetics (Roof, 2008). He has published articles in such diverse journals as October,[24] Grey Room,[25] Contemporary Literature,[26] PMLA,[27] and Critical Inquiry.[28]
Dworkin is the founding senior editor of Eclipse, an online archive focusing on digital facsimiles of radical small-press writing from the last quarter of the 20th century.[4] The archive has expanded to publish selected new works and include born-digital publications.[4]
Works
Scholarly monographs
- Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality. University of Chicago Press. 2020.
- Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography. Fordham University Press. 2020.
- No Medium. MIT Press. 2013.
- Reading the Illegible. Northwestern University Press. 2003.
Edited collections
- Nothing: A User's Manual. Information as Material. 2015.
- Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith, eds. Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing. Northwestern University Press. 2011.
- Craig Dworkin and Marjorie Perloff, eds. The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound. University of Chicago Press. 2009.
- The Consequence of Innovation: 21st-Century Poetics. Roof Books. 2008.
- Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci. MIT Press. 2006.
- Craig Dworkin and María Eugenia Díaz Sánchez, eds. Architectures of Poetry. Rodopi. 2004.
Poetry books and pamphlets
- Lagniappes. Hiding Press. 2022.
- Helicography. Punctum Books. 2021.
- Clock (PDF). Inscription: the Journal of Material Text. 2020.
- The Pine-Woods Notebook. Kenning Editions. 2019.
- In Two Dimensions (PDF). Sync. 2019.
- Def. Information As Material. 2018.
- Twelve Erroneous Displacements and a Fact. Information As Material. 2016.
- Alkali. Counterpath Press. 2015.
- Craig Dworkin and Madeline Gilmore. An Attempt at Exhausting a Space in Williamstown (PDF). Publication Studio. 2015.
- Remotes. Little Red Leaves. 2013.
- Chapter XXIV. Red Butte Press. 2013.
- The Crystal Text (After Clark Coolidge). Compline. 2012.
- A Handbook of Protocols for Literary Listening (PDF). Arika. 2012.
- Emblem of My Work. Laurence Sterne Trust. 2011.
- Copys. No Press. 2011.
- Motes. Roof Books. 2011.
- The Perverse Library (PDF). Information As Material. 2010.
- Unheard Music (PDF). Information As Material. 2009.
- Parse. Atelos. 2008.
- Maps (PDF). Editions Ubu. 2007.
- Strand. Roof Books. 2005.
- Smokes. Editions Ubu. 2004.
- Dure (PDF). Cuneiform Press. 2004.
- Index (PDF). housepress. 2002.
- Signature—Effects. ghos-ti-. 1997.
References
- "Craig Dworkin". The University of Utah. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- "Craig Dworkin". The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. 2013. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- "Craig Dworkin". Mapping Literary Utah. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- LaMarre, James (5 January 2016). "Poetic protocols: An interview with Craig Dworkin". Jacket2. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- Gossett, Michael (4 March 2019). "Eclipse Archive". Archival Encounters. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- "Assistant professors join faculty". Princeton Weekly Bulletin. 16 November 1998. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- "Board approves 14 promotions". Princeton Weekly Bulletin. 2004. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- Sacksteder, Joe (April 2022). ""Helicography by Craig Dworkin"". The Rupture. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- "Al Filreis and Danny Snelson discuss The Pine-Woods Notebook". Kenning Editions. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- "From DEF – A Long Poem". Arcade: A Digital Salon. Stanford. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- Liberty, Megan N. (April 2017). "Reading as Art & Publishing as Artistic Practice". Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- Brunvand, Amy (3 April 2016). "Poetry as Mineralogy: Craig Dworkin's Conceptual Poetry Crystalizes in Alkali". Artists of Utah. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- Williams, Tyrone (9 June 2014). "Dworkin after Coolidge: 'The Crystal Text' stripped bare ..." Jacket2. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- Burt, Stephanie (7 February 2013). "Games About Frames: Minimalists Craig Dworkin and Michael O'Brien". Boston Review. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- "Exhibitions and events: The Perverse Library". The Laurence Sterne Trust. 2010. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- Stephens, Paul. "Self-Portrait in a Context Mirror: Pain and Quotation in the Conceptual Writing of Craig Dworkin". Postmodern Culture. Johns Hopkins University Press. 19 (3). doi:10.1353/pmc.2009.0004.
- Jackson, Virginia (December 2022). "Virginia Jackson reviews Radium of the Word". Critical Inquiry. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- "Dworkin discusses Radium of thee Word". YouTube. May 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
- Malyszek, Chelsea (7 November 2020). "The Poet and the Dictionary". The Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- Drucker, Johanna (9 July 2013). "Understanding Media: Craig Dworkin's "No Medium"". The Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- Leong, Michael (8 June 2013). "Reading the "Nothings that Are": Craig Dworkin's "No Medium"". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- Khalip, Jacques (October 2004). "Harder to See". Boston Review. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- Reed, Brian (June 2016). "Idea Eater: The Conceptual Lyric as an Emergent Literary Form". Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal. University of Manitoba. 49 (2). Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- Dworkin, Craig Douglas (Winter 2001). "Fugitive Signs". October. The MIT Press. 95: 90–113. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
- Dworkin, Craig (Fall 2005). "Whereof One Cannot Speak". Grey Room (21): 46–69. doi:10.1162/152638105774539798. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- Dworkin, Craig (Spring 2007). "The Imaginary Solution". Contemporary Literature. University of Wisconsin Press. 48 (1): 29–60. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- Dworkin, Craig (May 2008). "The Poetry of Sound". PMLA. Cambridge University Press. 123 (3): 755–761. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- Dworkin, Craig (Summer 2018). "Poetry in the Age of Consumer-Generated Content". Critical Inquiry. 44 (4). doi:10.1086/698173. Retrieved 1 July 2021.