All books currently in print are
available through
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or directly from the publisher’s web site
BOOKS: POETRY
Crow,
Mohawk, Doones Press,
Nox, Burning Deck,
Ketjak, This Press,
Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps, Tuumba,
Legend (collaboration with Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray Di
Palma and Steve McCaffery), L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E/Segue,
(http://www.princeton.edu/eclipse/projects/LEGEND/legend.html)
Tjanting, The Figures,
(http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smc/1876857196.htm)
Bart, Potes & Poets Press,
(http://www.potespoets.org/chapbooks/bart.htm)
ABC, Tuumba,
The Age of Huts, Roof Books,
(http://www.roofbooks.com/Book/index.cfm?GCOI=93780100939290)
Lit, Potes & Poets Press,
(http://www.potespoets.org/catalog/lit.htm)
What, The Figures, Great
Manifest, Zasterle Press,
Demo to Ink, Chax Press,
Toner, Potes & Poets Press,
(http://www.potespoets.org/catalog/toner.htm)
Jones, Generator Press,
N/O, Roof Press,
(http://www.roofbooks.com/book/index.cfm?GCOI=93780100636110)
Xing, Meow Press,
(http://www.factoryschool.org/meowpress/silliman.html)
MultiPlex, (includes two works by Karen Mac Cormack), Wild Honey
Press, Bray, Co.
(R), Drogue Press,
Woundwood, Cuneiform Press,
(http://www.cuneiformpress.com/wound.html)
The Age of Huts (compleat),
(http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10742.html)
The Alphabet,
BOOKS: CRITICISM
The New Sentence, Roof,
(http://www.roofbooks.com/Book/index.cfm?GCOI=93780100484640)
BOOKS: MEMOIRS
Under
(http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/sml/1844710513.htm)
The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, Parts 1-IV, co-authored with Bob Perelman, Barrett Watten, Steve Benson, Carla Harryman, Tom Mandel, Kit Robinson, Lyn Hejinian, Rae Armantrout & Ted Pearson, Mode A, Detroit, MI, 2006-2007
BOOKS: ANTHOLOGIES
In the American Tree, National Poetry
Foundation, University of Maine, Orono, ME, 1986; second edition, 2002
(http://www.upne.com/0-943373-51-4.html)
E-BOOKS
N/O, Roof Books,
(http://www.roofbooks.com/book/index.cfm?GCOI=93780100636110)
Sunset Debris,
Ubu Editions,
(http://www.ubu.com/ubu/silliman_sunset.html_)
2197, Ubu
Editions,
(http://www.ubu.com/ubu/silliman_2197.html)
The Chinese Notebook, Ubu Editions,
(http://www.ubu.com/ubu/silliman_chinese.html)
Legend (collaboration with Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray Di
Palma and Steve McCaffery), Eclipse,
(http://www.princeton.edu/eclipse/projects/LEGEND/legend.html)
EDITOR (Literary)
“15 Young Poets of the San Francisco-Bay Area,” (David Melnick, co-editor), Chicago Review, Vol. 21, No. 4, Summer, 1970, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, pp. 71-136
Tottel’s, nos. 1-18, 1970-81,
“The Dwelling Place: 9 Poets,” Alcheringa, New Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1975, Boston University, Boston, MA, pp. 104-120
A Symposium on Clark Coolidge: Stations 5, Winter, 1978,
“Realism,” Ironwood, No. 20, 1983,
In the American Tree, National Poetry
Foundation,
(http://www.upne.com/0-943373-51-4.html)
EDITOR (Other)
Labyrinth, Committee for Prisoner Humanity and Justice, San Rafael, CA, 1973-6
Tenderloin Times, Central City Hospitality House, San Francisco, CA, 1978-81
Socialist Review, Center for Social Research and Education, Berkeley, CA, 1986-1991 (executive editor 1986-1989)
Unfinished Business: 20 Years of Socialist Review, Verso
Press,
JOURNALS CONCERNING RON SILLIMAN
The Difficulties: Ron Silliman Issue, Vol. 2, No. 2, edited by Tom
Beckett, Kent, OH, 1985
Quarry West 34: Ron Silliman and The Alphabet, edited by Thomas A. Vogler, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 1998
ANTHOLOGIES (POETRY AND CRITICISM)
Selected Poems from the
Alphabet Anthology, edited by Joyce Holland, X Press,
None of the Above, edited by Michael Lally, Crossing Press, Trumansburg, NY, 1976
Omens from the Flight of Birds, edited by Stephen Vincent, Momo’s
Press,
The Big House, edited by Michael Slater, Ailanthus Press, New York, NY, 1978
The Pushcart Prize: IV, edited by Bill Henderson, Pushcart Press,
The Poets’ Encyclopedia, edited by Michael Andre, Unmuzzled Ox,
The Poetry Reading, edited by Stephen Vincent and Ellen Zweig,
Momo’s Press,
A Century in Two Decades, edited by Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, Burning Deck, Providence, RI, 1982
Claims for Poetry, edited by Donald Hall,
The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles
Bernstein, Southern Illinois University Press,
Postmoderno E Letteratura, edited by Peter Carravetta and Paoloi
Spedicato, Studi Bompiani, Milano, Italy, 1984
Writing/Talks, edited by Bob Perelman, Southern Illinois University
Press,
Alles und Noch Viel Mehr: Das Poetische ABC, edited by G.J.
Lischka, Bentelli,
21 + 1: Poetes americains d’aujourd’hui, edited by Emmanuel Hocquard and Claude Royet-Journoud, Delta, Universite Paul Valery, Montpellier, France, 1986
21 + 1: American Poets Today, edited by Emmanuel Hocquard and Claude Royet-Journoud, Delta, Universite Paul Valery, Montpellier, France, 1986 (English companion volume)
In the American Tree, edited by Ron Silliman, National Poetry
Foundation,
Postmodern Fiction: A Bio-Bibliographic Guide, edited by Larry McCaffery, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1986
Alive and Writing: Interviews with American Authors of the 1980s, conducted and edited by Larry McCaffery and Sinda Gregory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 1987
The Line in Post-Modern Poetry, edited by Henry Sayre and Robert
Frank,
Contemporary American Poet-Critics, edited by James McCorkle, Wayne State University Press, 1988
Festival de Tarascon:
Cinquieme Recontres Internationales de Poesie Contemporaine, A.G.R.I.P.P.A., 1989
The Politics of Poetic Form: Poetry and Social Policy, edited by
Charles Bernstein, Roof Books,
World’s Edge, edited by Sherry Reniker, Word Press/Open Meeting Books, Kawasaki, Japan and Kenosha, Wisconsin, 1991
Jean Baudrillard: The Disappearance of Art and Politics, edited by William Stearns and William Chaloupka, St. Martins Press, New York, 1992
La Lengua Radical: Antologia
de la poesia norteamericana contemporanea, edited and translated by Esteban Pujals Gesali,
Gramma Poesia, Madrid, Spain, 1992
A Suite of Poetic Voices: Interviews with Contemporary American Poets,
by Manuel Brito, Kadle Books,
The Art of Practice, edited by Dennis Barone and Peter Ganick, Potes & Poets Press, Elmwood, CT, 1994 (afterword)
Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, edited by Paul Hoover, Norton, New York, NY, 1994
From the Other Side of the Century: A New American Poetry 1960-1990, edited by Douglas Messerli, Sun & Moon, Los Angeles, CA, 1994
American Poetologics/Amerikanische Poetolgie, edited by Helmut Breinig, Univ. of Bramberg Library, Bramberg Editions, Germany, 1996
The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry 1994-1995, edited
by Douglas Messerli, Sun & Moon,
Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word, edited by Charles Bernstein, Oxford University Press, 1998
Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry, vol. 2, edited by Pierre Joris and Jerome Rothenberg, Univeristy of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1998
From Artifice to Indeterminacy: An Anthology of Poetics from 1980 to
the Present, edited by Christopher Beach,
Poetics@, edited by Joel
Kuszai, Roof Books,
Anthology of Modern American Poetry, edited by Cary Nelson, Oxford University Press,
The Form of Our Uncertainty: A Tribute to Gil Ott, edited by Kristen Gallagher, Chax &
Handwritten Presses, Buffalo NY & Tucson AZ, 2001
The Best American Poetry 2002, edited by David Lehman and Robert Creeley, Scribners, New York, 2002
Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry, edited by
Todd Swift and Phil Norton,
One Score More: The Second 20 years of Burning Deck, 1981-2001, edited
by Alison Bundy, Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop, Burning Deck Press,
Twentieth- Century Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry, edited by Dana Gioia, Dave Mason and Meg Shoercke, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2004
Fellowship Recipients 2002: The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, edited by Tina Calabro, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Harrisburg, PA, 2004
The Best American Poetry 2004, edited by David Lehman and Lyn Hejinian, Scribners, New York, 2004
The Addison Street Anthology: Berkeley’s Poetry Walk, edited by Robert Hass & Jessica Fisher, Heyday Books, Berkeley, CA, 2004
Poet’s Bookshelf: Contemporary Poets on Books that Shaped their Art, edited by Peter Davis, Barnwood Press, 2005
In the
criminal's cabinet: Anthology of poetry and fiction, edited by Todd Swift &
Val Stevenson, Nthposition,
Poetry and the Year 2000, edited by Leslie Davis, Xurban Press, Westminster, CO, apparently unpublished
Líneas conectadas: nueva poesía de los Estados Unidos, edited by
April Lindner, translation editor Hernan Lara Zavala, Sarabande Books,
POEMS IN PERIODICALS (Partial listing)
1965
Community Libertarian, No. 1, May 1, three poems, no pagination
1966
Avalanche, No. 1,
Avalanche, No. 2,
Kauri, No. 14,
Loveletter, Triple No. 4,5, 6,
Poetry Northwest, Vol. 7, No. 3,
1967
Arts in Society,
Avalanche, No. 3,
Hollow
New, No. 4, September,
Poetry Northwest, Vol. 8, No. 4,
1968
The
Trace, No. 68,
TriQuarterly, No. 12, Spring,
Northwestern University,
Work, No. 5,
1969
Arts in Society, Vol. 6, No. 3, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, two poems, p. 431
Caterpillar 8/9, October,
Gods and Heroes: A Modern American Writer
Looks at the
Occident, Vol. 3, New Series,
Spring/Summer,
Poetry, Vol. 113, No. 4, January,
The South Florida Poetry Journal, Vol. 1, No. 3, five poems, p. 33-5
1970
Occident, Vol. 4, New Series,
Spring/Summer,
Tottel’s, No. 1,
1971
Amphora 6, Headstone Press,
Chicago Review, Vol. 22, No. 4, Spring, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, “Text I,” “Text VII,” pp. 26-28
Occident, Vol. 5, New Series, Fall,
Rain, nos. 1&2,
This 1, Winter,
This 2, Fall, Iowa City, IA and Franconia, NH, 5 untitled poems, no pagination
Tottel’s, No. 6,
Tuatara, No. 5, July, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 8 untitled poems, pp. 1- 4
1972
Baloney Street, No. 3/4,
Diana’s Bimonthly, Vol 1., No. 3,
Diana’s Bimonthly, Vol. 1, No. 4,
August,
Salt Lick, Vol. 2, nos. 1 & 2,
Shelter, February,
Silver,
Third Assembling,
Toothpick, Lisbon and the Orcas Islands,
Tottel’s, No. 8,
Tottel’s, No. 10, San Francisco, CA, untitled poem and “Bohor”, pp. 20-27
1973
Big Deal, No. 1, Spring,
Gum,
No. 9,
L, Vol. 1, No. 2-3, Spring,
Shirt, April,
This 4, Spring,
Toothpick, Lisbon & the Orcas Islands, Andrews/Wiater Issue, Fall, “Allures,” “Song No. 1,” no pagination
1974
Baloney Street, No. 7,
Big Deal, No. 2, Spring,
Fifth Assembling,
Gegenschein Quarterly, No.
7-8, Bowling Green, OH, “from ‘Songs for Bruce Andrews,” “Lips,” “from ‘Ott’,”
no pagination
L, Vol. 1, No. 4-5, Spring,
Occident, Vol. viii, New Series, Spring,
Roy Rogers, Winter,
This 5, Winter,
1975
Alcheringa, New Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Boston University, Boston, MA, “Tri,” pp. 114-116
Big Deal, No. 3, Spring,
Clown War 11,
Telephone, No. 10,
The 13,
This 6, Spring,
1976
A Hundred Posters, No. 8, August,
Bezoar, Vol. 4, No. 2, November,
Bondage & Discipline, Vol. 1, No. 3, Chicago, IL, nine poems, no pagination
Flora Danica, No. 2, September, Ann Arbor, MI, “Ponziani,” “Alekhine,” “The Marquis de la Place,” “The Enormous Tragedy of the Dream in the Peasant’s Bent Shoulders, ” no pagination
Occulist Witnesses, No. 3, Fall,
This 7, Spring,
Tottel’s, No. 16,
1977
Boundary 2, Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter, State University of New York, Binghampton, NY, “from The Chinese Notebook,” pp. 539-551
Hills 4, May,
Miam, No. 3, August,
Roof III,
1978
Abracadabra, No. 3, Luxembourg, “Ponzioni,” no
pagination
Bezoar, Vol. 13, No. 3, Summer,
Epod, No. 2, September,
Las-Bas, No. 10, January-February, College Park, MD, “Turk Street News,” pp. 43-49
Paper Air, Vol. 1, No. 3, Blue
Roof V,
Roof VII,
Tottel’s, No. 17,
Wet, No. 21,
This 9, Winter,
1979
Bezoar, Vol. 15, No. 3, Supplement to the Spring Issue of Winter, April Gloucetser, MA. “a paragraph from Tjanting,” no pagination (entire issue)
Gnome Baker IV,
Interstate, Vol. 3, No. 4, Austin, TX, “Winter Landscape with Skaters and a Bird Trap,” “The Swans,” pp. 24-8, 136-8
Sun & Moon, No. 8, Fall,
Wet, No. 21, November/December,
1980
The Difficulties, Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter,
1981
O.ars, No. 1,
Tamarisk, Vol. III, No. 4, Summer,
This 11, Spring,
1982
Change, No. 41, March,
Sulfur 3, California Institute of
Technology,
Sulfur 4, California Institute of
Technology,
1983
Boxcar, No. 1,
Conjunctions 4,
Hills 9,
Ironwood 20,
So & So, Vol. II, No. 2, Spring, Berkeley, CA, “Skies IV,” no pagination
This 12,
1984
Bluefish, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring,
Pavement, No. 4, Spring,
1985
Abacus, “Ron Silliman issue,”
Carte Segrete, Nuova Serie, N. 1, Rome, Italy, “Porta girevole” (Opening sequence of Ketjak) translated by Franco La Polla, pp. 133-135
The Difficulties: Ron Silliman Issue,
Vol. 2, No. 2,
Fiction International, 15:2,
Five Fingers Review, No. 2,
Moving Letters,
Origin, Fifth Series, No. 6,
Writing 11,
1986
Bulletin A.R.C. Litterature, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, No. 162, “Trace,” (translation of, pp. 659-660, opening section of Tjanting), translated by Philippe Jaworski, pp. 659-660
Caliban, No. 1,
Mandorla: The
Notes,
Sink 1,
Southpaw, Vol. 2, No. 1, Winter,
Sulfur 16,
Temblor, No. 3,
Tramen, No. 5,
Zyzzyva,
1987
B-City, No. 4, Spring,
boundary 2, Vol. XIV, nos. 1 & 2, “Fall 1985/Winter 1986” (sic), SUNY Binghamtom, Binghamtom, NY, “from Paradise,” pp. 13-14
The New American Writing, No. 1,
1988
Archive Newsletter, Archive for New
Poetry, UCSD Library,
Conjunctions 12,
Gendaishi Techo, January,
Generator 2,
O-blék, No. 3, Stockbridge, MA & New York, NY, “from ‘Hidden’,“ pp. 73-78
Temblor 8,
West Coast Review, Vol. 22, No. 1,
Summer “1987” (sic),
1989
Broadway 2,
Chax Press Broadside,
Delo, Vol. XXXV, No. 8,
minnesota review,
O.blek 6, Stockbridge, MA, “from `Toner’,“ pp. 137-142
Screens and Tasted Parallels,
Sulfur 24, Spring, 1989,
Talisman, No. 3, Fall, 1989,
Zyzzyva, Vol. V, No. 1,
1990
Archive for New Poetry Newsletter, No. 46, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, “from ‘Jones’,“ pp. 17-18
Avec, No. 3,
Brief 7, Canyon, CA, “from ‘Jones’,“ no pagination
Edge,
La Pagina, No. 2, February-May, Tenerife, Canary Islands, “from ‘Ketjak,’“ in English with facing Spanish translation by Estaban Pujals Gesali, pp. 132-135
Raddle Moon, No. 9,
Verse, Vol. 7, No. 1, Fife, Scotland, Salford, England, and Williamsburg, VA, “from ‘Toner’,“ pp. 64-65
Writing No. 25,
1991
Blue
Generator 5,
Meanjin, Vol. 50, No. 1, Autumn 1991,
O.ars, No. 8,
Socialist Review, Vol. 91, No. 2,
April-June 1991, “from
Zyzzyva 25, Vol. VII, No. 1, San Francisco, CA, “from ‘Jones’,“ pp. 76-81
1992
Ovdia, No. 286, October, 1992,
Rusky Almanac, No. 2,
Stifled Yawn,
Talisman,
Tyuonyi,
1993
Grist On-Line, No. 1,
Hot Bird Mfg, Vol. II, No. 5, July,
1993,
Mirage #4/Period(ical) #17, June 1993, “from ‘Non’,“ no pagination
The Redneck Review of
Literature, No. XXIV, Spring, 1993, p. 89,
1994
B-City,
Conjunctions No. 21, ,
Croton Bug 3,
New American Writing, No. 12,
No Roses Review, No. 3, Spring 1994,
Object No. 2, Winter 1993/1994,
Object Permanence, Issue One, January,
Situation No. 7,
1995
Den Blå Port: Tidsskrift for Literature, 33/95,
København (
Cream City Review, Vol. 19, No. 1,
Spring 1995, from “Under,” pp. 89-93
Grist On-Line, No. 6,
Proliferation No. 2, November 1994 (sic), from “Under,” pp. 13-17
6ix, Vol. 4, No. 1, “from ‘Under,’” pp. 8-11
TO, Vol. 3, No. 5, Summer 1995, from “Under,” pp.69-72
1996
CrossConnect, vol. 1, number 3, February
1996,
CrossConnect, vol. 1, 1996,
New Orleans Review, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring 1996, New Orleans, LA, from “Under,” pp. 33-36
Object Permanence, Issue Six, January,
1996,
Salt, No. 8,
Subdream, vol. 1, no. 1,
Tinfish 3,
1997
“From Toner, Lit, Paradise and Manifest” with English facing, translated by Manual Brito, in Cuadernos del Ateneo de La Laguna, no. 2, 1997, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, pp. 31-35
Potepoetzine Two,
1998
1998 Pew Fellowships in the Arts, Pew
Charitable Trusts, University of the Arts,
Abacus, No. 114,
Black Ice, http://www.altx.com/profiles/being.html, “You XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII”
CrossConnect, vol. 4, no. 2 (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v4/i2/g/silliman.html), “You XXIX, XXX, XXXI”
Fourteen Hills,
Kenning, No. 2,
Non, No. 2, http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~moriarty/2/notes.htm,
“From Tjanting”
Philly Talks, No. 3, Philadelphia, PA, “You V, VI, VII, XIX, XXII, XXIII,” plus email correspondence with Jeff Derksen, np (entire issue)
Quarry West 34: Ron Silliman and The Alphabet, edited by Thomas A. Vogler, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, October, 1998, bookmark inserted into the issue, “Albany”
Sycamore Review, W.
1999
5_trope No. 6, from “You,” XLV, XLVI, XLVII (link no longer active, but see 2002)
APR Philly Edition 99 (American Poetry Review), Philadelphia, PA, from “You,” published as an insert to the Philadelphia Weekly, September 29, p. 16, from “You,” XLI, XLII, XLIII, XLIV
Chain 6 (“Letters”),
Jacket, No. 6, January, 1999, Balmain, Australia, from “You,” XXXVI, XXXVII, XXXVIII, XXXIX, XL
(http://jacketmagazine.com/06/silliman.html)
PoetryEtc, “Featured Poet #18,” edited by John Kinsella, Cambridge,
UK, e-list publication from poetryetc@listbot.com, from Hidden, Oz and What
Stand, New Series
Vol. 1, No., 4,
Veer,
Chain, No. 7
(“memoir/anti-memoir”), Honolulu/Philadelphia, pp. 176-192, from “Under
Conjunctions 35,
CrossConnect, Vol. 5, No.
2, Philadelphia, PA, “Silence of the Looms” and “The Nose of Kim Darby’s
Double” from VOG
(http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v5/i2/g/silliman1.html
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v5/i2/g/silliman2.html)
Included also in Xconnect:
Writers of the Information Age, vol.
4,
Dandelion, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring
2000,
Ixnay, No.
4, Spring-Summer 2000,
ReadMe, No. 3, Spring 2000, from Ketjak2: Caravan
of Affect ( http://www.jps.net/nada/Ketjak2.htm)
Slope, No. 5, July 2000, “That which is merely eternal soon rots,” from VOG, (http://slope.org/slope/poems/silliman.html)
Shiny, No. 11,
Crow, Edge Books,
Facture 2,
DC Poetry, Anthology 2001,
Journal of Literature and Aesthetic, vol. 1, no. 1, July-December
2001, Kerala, India, from “Demo,” pp.
90-92
POeP! 1,
Sal Mimeo, No. 2, Fall 2001,
5_trope No. 13, anthology issue, from “You,” XLV, XLVI, XLVII (http://webdelsol.com/5_trope/13/silliman.htm)
88, Hollyridge Press,
Matrix, No. 61,
muse apprentice guild, vol. 1, no. 1, August 2002,
near
south,
nthposition, August 2002, “Task Me with a ‘Do It’” and “Dadaquest” (from VOG)
overland 166,
Realpoetik, Seattle,
Salt Hill 12,
antennae
4,
Call, no. 1, “Eleutherian Mills,” and “Seven Sad Forests” (from VOG), pp. 50-54
Double Room, Issue 3, Winter 2003, “Final For” (http://webdelsol.com/Double_Room/issue_three/Ron_Silliman_1.html)
Electronic Poetry Review, No. 5, February, 2003, “On Brier Island” (http://www.poetry.org/issues/issue5/text/poems/rs1.htm) and “Trouble Ticket” (http://www.poetry.org/issues/issue5/text/poems/rs2.htm) (from VOG)
Filling
Station, no. 25,
Lit,
No. 8, Winter ’03-’04,
NWS,
November 6,
Secret
Swan no. 14,
Van Gogh’s Ear, 2, Spring 2003,
2004
Mute:
Culture and Politics After the Net, issue 27,
The
Agents of Impurity, July 2004, Sonic Arts Network,
“Considerations of Representability” from The Age of Huts, translated as “Consideraciones de Representabildad, ” translated by Manuel Brito in La Pagina 58 (Año XVI, numero 4, 2004), Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, pp. 44-61 (with the original English on facing pages)
Poezie Pamflet, October 2004,
2005
Big Bridge, No. 10, “from Zyxt,” “At the end of the day” (http://www.bigbridge.org/lettersilliman.htm)
Cue, vol. 2, no. 2, Summer, 2005, “from Zyxt,” “I’m still not convinced,” pp. 27-28
Drunken Boat, “from Zyxt,” “Giant
framed photograph.”
(http://www.drunkenboat.com/db7/index.html)
Latchkey.Net,
(http://www.latchkey.net/poets/ron_silliman/),
“from Zyxt,” “Flyers have been
taped””
”from Non” “Proto-mallie: the flaneur”
”from Under,” “The word as ground”
MiPoesias: Revista Literaria, vol. 19, no. 3, from Zyxt, “To confuse dream with sleep”
(http://www.mipoesias.com/Volume19Issue3Gudding/silliman.html)
Poems
from Others, email zine, “
RealPoetik, email zine, “from Zyxt,” the line beginning “I'm in a warm, even hot bath”
Shampoo, “from Zyxt,” “The
hand without its palm”
(http://www.shampoopoetry.com/ShampooTwentyfour/silliman.html)
2006
mark(s), Detroit, MI, “from Zyxt” – six sections, including: “A
young woman bicycles past a field of corn,” “Domain poisoning,” “Elk or ilk,
which one,” “In the dream I’m always in the same drab green room,” “Just out of
the bath,” “like a typo but is not”
(http://markszine.com/701/rs/ind.htm)
O Poss, No. 1, 2006, “(G)hosts” (from VOG), pp. 15-16
Xconnect / CrossConnect,
Vol. 8,
2007
Jacket 33, “from Zyxt (‘Flush
hard’)” as part of “The Dangerfield Conundrum: A Roundtable on Humor in Poetry”
edited by Rachel Loden & K. Silem Mohammad
(http://jacketmagazine.com/33/humpo-poems.shtml#silliman)
Milk,8,
(http://www.milkmag.org/silliman8.html)
EOAGH, “from Zyxt (‘A
dream before dawn’)”
On Word, “Kackin of Egok,” (from VOG)
INSTALLATIONS
The Addison Street Anthology, curated by Robert Hass, tile by David Goines, Addison Street & environs, Berkeley, CA (a collection of sidewalk tiles commemorating Berkeley’s poets), installed 2003, “from ‘Ink’”
BROADSIDES & MISCELLANY
(very partial listing)
Albany, printed by Charles Alexander of Chax Press in Tucson for a reading at Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, WI, April 22, 1989
Daniel Bouchard, The Fancy Memory, Ron Silliman, J is for Juvenile, printed by Anchorite Press for poets reading at Wordsworth Books, Cambridge, MA, June 22, 2004
CRITICAL WRITING (partial list)
“The Soft Hello,” Salt Lick, Vol. 2, nos. 1&2, 1972,
Untitled review of Tom Clark’s Neil Young, Rolling Stone, No. 113, July 20, 1972, San Francisco, CA, p. 60
“Opening,” Maps 6, “Robert Duncan Issue,” 1974,
“Surprised by Sign,” in “The Dwelling Place: 9 Poets,” Alcheringa, New Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1975, Boston University, Boston, MA, pp. 118-120
Untitled review of Tom Marioni’s Vision, San Francisco Review of Books, Vol. 3, No. 2, June, 1977, pp. 17-18
Untitled review of seven volumes of poetry and poetics, San Francisco Review of Books, Vol. 3, nos. 3/4, July/August, 1977, pp. 36-37
“Art with No Name,” State of the Arts, Cultural News & Services (publication of the California Arts Council), Vol. 1, No. 10, November, 1997; republished in The Poetry Reading: A Contemporary Compendium on Language & Performance, edited by Steven Vincent and Ellen Zweig (published simultaneously as a Momo’s Press book and as Shocks 7, 8, 9, San Francisco, 1981), pp. 160-65
“For Open Letter,” in “The Politics of the Referent,” Open Letter, Third Series, No. 7, Summer, 1977, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, pp. 89-93, reprinted in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Supplement No. 1, June, 1980, New York, NY, no pagination
“Disappearance of the Word, Appearance of the World,” A Hundred Posters, No. 14, February, 1977, Boston, MA, entire issue, reprinted in Art Contemporary, Vol. 2, No. 2/3, 1977, San Francisco, CA, pp. 10-11, 50-53, also reprinted in The Dumb Ox, No. 5, 1977, Northridge, CA, pp. 27-30; in “The Politics of Poetry — A Supplement,” L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Supplement No. 3, October, 1981, New York, NY, no pagination; in The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL, 1984, pp. 121-132; in Jean Baudrillard: The Disappearance of Art and Politics, edited by William Stearns and William Chaloupka, St. Martins Press, New York, 1992, p. 27-37; translated into Croatian as “Iscezavanje Reci, Pojavljivanje Sveta” by Adrijana Marcetic in Delo, Vol. XXXV, No. 8, 1989, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, pp. 275-290; translated into German (and printed bilingually as “Verschwinden des Wortes, Erscheinen der Welt”) in Amerikanische Poetologie: Lyriker and Lyrikerinnen der USA in Selbstaussagen und Gedichten—Eine Zweisprachige Auswahl, edited by Helmbrecht Breinig, (Bamberg: University of Bamberg Library, “Bamberger Editionen, Harald Wentzlaff-Eggebert general editor, 1996); translated into Dutch as “De verdwijning van het word, De verschijning van de wereld” by Sascha Bru in Yang no. 191, November 2000, pp. 385-393.
“Ubeity,” A Symposium on Clark Coolidge: Stations 5,
Winter, 1978,
“Nice,” L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E,
Vol 1. No. 1, February, 1978,
“Space May Produce
New Wor(l)ds,” Montemora 4, 1978,
“The Williams
Influence,”
“Louis Zukofsky,” L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, No. 4, August, 1978, New York, NY, no pagination, reprinted in Paideuma, Vol. 7, No. 3, “Louis Zukofsky Issue,” Winter, 1978, National Poetry Foundation, Orono, ME, pp. 405-406
“Breastwork,” L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Vol. 1, No. 2, April,
1978,
“For L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Vol. 1, No. 4, August, 1978, no pagination
“From ‘Language Writing’,” L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Vol. 1, No. 5, October, 1978, no pagination
“Benjamin Obscura,” Renegade, No. 1, no date given, New York, NY, pp. 35-70, excerpted in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Vol. 1, No. 6, New York City, NY, 1979, no pagination, and in The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, op. cit., pp. 63-65
Untitled review of Curtis Faville’s Stanzas for an Evening Out, San Francisco Review of Books, Vol. 4, No. 7, March, 1979, pp. 24-25
Untitled review of Robert Grenier’s Sentences, American Book Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, Summer, 1979, New York City, NY, p. 12
“Notes on the
Relation of Theory to Practice,” Paper
Air, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1979, Blue
“If by ‘Writing’ We Mean Literature,” L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Vol. 2, nos. 9/10, October, 1979, no pagination, reprinted in The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, op. cit., pp. 167-168. Translated into Spanish as “Si por ‘Escritura’ Queremos Decir Literatura” by Margarita Mele, in Nerter, No. 1, Otoño-Invierno, 1999, pp. 38-39.
“Zyxt,” The Poets’ Encyclopedia, Unmuzzled Ox, New York, NY, 1979, pp. 296-297, reprinted in The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, op. cit., p. 207
“The New Sentence,” Talks: Hills 6/7, 1980,
“Rewriting Marx,” L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Vol. 3, No. 13, December, 1980, no pagination; reprinted as “Re Writing: Marx,” in The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, op. cit., p. 174; reprinted in “Money: A Poets’ Symposium,” edited by David Lehman, in Epoch, Vol. 38, No. 2, 1989, p. 166
“Introduction Collective au Movement de Language Poetry,” co-authored with Barrett Watten, Steve Benson, Lyn Hejinian, Charles Bernstein, and Bob Perelman, translated by Jean-Pierre Faye, in Change, No. 41, March, 1981; published in English original as For Change in In the American Tree, National Poetry Foundation, Orono, ME, 1986, pp. 484-490 (dated here correctly as 1982); translated into ‘Serbocroation’ as “Za Promenu” by Dubravka Djuric, in Delo, Vol. XXXV, No. 8, pp. 251-257, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
“Third Phase
Objectivism,” Paideuma, Vol. 10, No.
1, “George Oppen Issue,” Spring, 1981, National Poetry Foundation,
“The Political Economy of Poetry,” L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Vol. 4, 1981, New York, NY, simultaneously published as Open Letter, Fifth Series, No. 1, Winter, 1982, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, pp. 52-65; reprinted in From Artifice to Indeterminacy: An Anthology of Poetics from 1980 to the Present, edited by Christopher Beach (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998), pp 190-200; reprinted in Twentieth- Century Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry, edited by Dana Gioia, Dave Mason and Meg Shoercke, McGraw-Hill, 2004
“Reading Ketjak,” The Poetry Reading: A Contemporary Compendium on Language & Performance, edited by Steven Vincent and Ellen Zweig (published simultaneously as a Momo’s Press book and as Shocks 7, 8, 9, San Francisco, 1981), pp. 194-199; republished in Quarry West 34: Ron Silliman and The Alphabet, edited by Thomas A. Vogler, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, October, 1998, pp. 46-51.
Untitled review of David Ignatow’s Open Between Us, American Book Review, Vol. 3, No. 6, September-October, 1981, p. 8
Untitled review of Bruce Andrews’ Wobbling, Sagetrieb Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring, 1982, National Poetry Foundation, pp. 155-158
“Identification,
Reference, Mode,” O.ars, No. 2, 1982,
“For Charles
Bernstein has such a Spirit...,” The
Difficulties: Charles Bernstein Issue, Fall, 1982,
“Migratory Meaning: The Parsimony Principle in the Poem,” Poetics Journal, No. 2, September, 1982, Oakland and Berkeley, CA, pp. 27-41; Translated as “Nomadisk Betydning” by Line Brandt in Nye Sætninger, Legenda No. 2, 2001, København (Copenhagen), Denmark, pp. pp.61-83
Untitled review of Hannah Weiner’s Little Books/Indians and Nijole’s House, Sulfur 5, 1982, op. cit., pp. 138-141
Untitled review of William Bronk’s Life Supports, American Book Review, Vol. 5, No. 1, op. cit., pp. 18-19
“Realism,” in
“Realism,” Ironwood, No. 20, 1983,
“Composition as
Action,” Poetics Journal, No. 3, May,
1983,
Untitled review of Kenneth Irby’s Orexis, American Book Review, Vol. 5, No. 5, July-August, 1983, op. cit., p. 12
Untitled review of
Beverly Dahlen’s The Egyptian Poems, Sulfur 11, 1984,
Untitled review of Philip Dow’s 19 New American Poets of the Golden Gate, San Francisco Chronicle, Review Magazine, May 13, 1984, pp. 4-6
Untitled review of Ted Hughes’ River, San Francisco Chronicle, Review Magazine, June, 17, 1984, p. 8
“Spicer’s Language,”
in Writing/Talks, edited by Bob
Perelman, Southern Illinois University Press,
“Statement for New Poetics Colloquium,” in untitled collection published in conjunction with colloquium, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, August 1985; reprinted in Jimmy and Lucy’s House of ‘K’, No. 5, November, 1985, pp. 17-19
“Different Languages,” American Book Review, Vol. 7, No. 3, March/April, 1985, pp. 12-13
“Waves of Meaning,” American Book Review, Vol. 7, No. 6, September/October, 1985, pp. 10-12, 23
“Steve McCaffery, Ron Silliman, Charles Bernstein: Correspondence: May, 1976-December, 1977,” edited by Steve McCaffery, Lines, pp. 59-90
Untitled review of Barrett Watten’s Progress, San Francisco Chronicle, Review Magazine, Nov. 17, 1985, p. 12
“Stanzas in Meditation,” Tramen, No. 4, 1986, no pagination
“New Prose, New Prose Poem,” in Postmodern Fiction: A Bio- Bibliographical Guide, edited by Larry McCaffery, Greenwood Press, New York, pp. 157-174
“Charles Bernstein,” ibid., pp. 280-282
“Lyn Hejinian,” ibid., pp. 400-403
“Barrett Watten,” ibid., pp. 539-542
“The Shipwreck of the Singular: The Evolution of the Sentence in George Oppen’s Verse,” Temblor, No. 5, 1987, pp. 117-19
“‘My Vocabulary Did This to Me,’“ Acts, No. 6, 1987, pp. 67-71
“Tight Corners,” The Difficulties: David Bromige issue, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1987, pp. 47-53
“Pete Seeger and the Avant-Garde,” Socialist Review, No. 92, Vol. 17, No. 2, March-April, 1987, pp. 120-28
“Postmodernism: Sign
for a Struggle, the Struggle for the Sign,” Poetics
Journal, No. 7, September, 1987, pp. 18-39. Reprinted in Contemporary American Poet-Critics, op.
cit.; translated into Serbian by Dubravka Djuric and published in Gradina, Vol.
26, No. 2-3, 1991,
“Negative Solidarity: Revisionism and ‘New American Poetics,’“ Sulfur, No. 22, Spring, 1988, pp. 169-176
“Poetry and the Politics of the Subject,” Socialist Review, 88/3, July-September, 1988, pp. 61-68
“Terms of
Enjambment,” The Line in Postmodern
Poetry, edited by Robert Frank and Henry Sayre (
Untitled note on Robert Duncan, American Poetry, Vol. 6, No. 1, fall, 1988, p. 74
“Aesthetic Tendency and the Politics of Poetry” (co-authored by Barrett Watten, Lyn Hejinian, Carla Harryman, Steve Benson and Kit Robinson), Social Text, No. 19/20, Fall, 1988, pp. 261-275
“Poets and Intellectuals,” Temblor, No. 9, 1989, pp. 122-124
“Indeterminacy, Autonomy, Determination,” Ottotole, No. 3, Spring, 1989, pp. 203-206
“Poetry and the Politics of Everyday Life,” Margin, No. 10, 1989, pp. 84-88
Untitled contribution to a symposium on “Language Poetry,” edited by Andrew Ross, Minnesota Review
“Response to the Cream City Review (High vs. Low Art),” Cream City Review, forthcoming
“Canons and
Institutions:
“Unfinished
Business: SR at 20,” in program for
20th anniversary party of Socialist
Review,
“What/Person: From an Exchange,” co-written by Leslie Scalapino, in Poetics Journal, No. 9, June, 1991, pp. 51-68
“What Do Cyborgs Want? / (Paris, Suburb of the Twentieth Century),” in Jean Baudrillard: The Disappearance of Art and Politics, edited by William Stearns and William Chaloupka (St. Martins Press, New York, 1992) p. 27-37
“I Wanted to Write Sentences: Decision Making in the American Longpoem,” in Sagetrieb, Orono, Maine, Vol. 11, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring & Fall, 1992, pp. 11-20
“RSVP: David Hart and others,” (responses to a survey on poetry by David Hart) in Verse, Fife, Scotland etc, Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring, 1993, pp. 110-112
“After Dark,” in lower limit speech: a newsletter in poetics,
“Positioning
Theory,” in lower limit speech: a
newsletter in poetics,
“The Practice of Art,” afterward to The Art of Practice: 45 Contemporary Poets, edited by Dennis Barone and Peter Ganick, Potes & Poets Press, 1994, pp. pp. 371-379
“Wild Form,” in lower limit speech: a newsletter in poetics, No. 9, June, 1994, Los Angeles, CA, npd; republished in Quarry West 34: Ron Silliman and The Alphabet, edited by Thomas A. Vogler, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, October, 1998, pp. 134-139.
“The Task of the
Translator: Watten’s
“Oh my, Devon Miller-Duggan...” in an untitled email exchange between D M-D, RS and Chris Semansky from the CAP-L (Contemporary American Poetry) discussion group, reprinted in Famous Reporter, No. 13, Tasmania, Australia, 1996, p. 14
“The Marginalization of Poetry by Bob Perelman,” in The Impercipient Lecture Series, vol. 1, no. 4, May 1997 (special issue devoted to Perelman’s book, The Marginalization of Poetry), pp. 1-13. Reprinted in Jacket, No. 2, Dec. 1997 (see e-publications).
“Silent Teacher,” a memoir of Hannah Weiner, in “On Hannah Weiner: 1928-1997,” Poetry Project Newsletter, No. 167, Dec. 1997-Jan. 1998, pp. 13-14.
“Who Speaks: Ventriloquism and the Self in the Poetry Reading,” in Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word, edited by Charles Bernstein, Oxford University Press, pp. 360-378.
“Untitled email correspondence with Jeff Derksen” in Philly Talks, No. 3, Philadelphia, PA, January 21, 1998, np
“The Dysfunction of Criticism: Poets and the Critical Tradition of the Anti-Academy,” in Poetics Journal, No. 10, Detroit, MI and Berkeley, CA, 1998, pp. 179-194.
“Post-Reading Discussion,” in “Responses to (mostly) PhillyTalks 3 (Derksen/Silliman) & Post-Reading Discussion,” PhillyTalks 6, edited by Louis Cabris, Kelly’s Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 11, 1998, pp. 9-17.
“thought or feeling forming,” (on the work of Robert Grenier) in Verdure No. 3-4 September 2000-February 2001, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, pp. 57-60.
“What is to be done,” published as “Progressiveness Now,” in Masthead 2, issue 4, (http://au.geocities.com/masthead_2/us/silliman.html) (originally an email posted to the Poetics List), September 2001.
“Asterisk: Separation at the Threshold of Meaning in the Poetry of Rae Armantrout, in We Who Love to Be Astonished, edited by Laura Hinton and Cynthia Hogue (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 2001), pp. 28-40.
“Melnick’s Pin,” in Logopoiea, (http://www.logopoeialogopoeia.da.ru/), 2002
Silliman’s Blog (http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/), 2002 - present
“The Desert
Modernism” and “A
“βαρβάρους”
in A•bacus, Special Issue: The War,
“Politics and Speed,” in Removed for Further Study: The Poetry of Tom Raworth, edited by Nate Dorward, published as The Gig 13/14, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May, 2003, pp. 233-241
“My Twentieth Century,” (written for in Poetry and the Year 2000, edited by Leslie Davis, Xurban Press, Westminster, CO, apparently unpublished), PLR: Prague Literary Review, vol. 1, no. 4, Prague, the Czech Republic, pp. 1 & 4, 2003
“Stein at her Word,” in Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, no. 27, Winter, 2004, Jersey City, NJ, pp. 61-65
“A Study: Ron
Silliman on Eileen Tabios and Her Poem ‘Helen,’(from Silliman’s Blog)” in Crucial
Bliss Epilogues by Eileen Tabios, Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry, 2004, pp.
40-43.
(http://www.tmpoetry.com/ChBks/ETabios/CBE.pdf)
“As to Violin Music:
Time in the Longpoem,” Jacket 27,
(http://jacketmagazine.com/27/silliman.html)
“Some Thoughts on No Direction Home,” The Bridge, no. 23, Winter 2005, pp. 77-81
“Interview with Geof Huth,” co-written with Crag
Hill, E-x-c-h-a-n-g-e-V-a-l-u-e-s, July
2005
(http://willtoexchange.blogspot.com/2005/07/interview-with-geof-huth-by-crag-hill.html)
“Shapiro’s ‘A Man Holding an Acoustic Panel,” in “Burning Interiors”: David Shapiro’s Poetry and Poetics, edited by Thomas Fink and Joseph Lease, Farleight Dickenson University Press, Madison & Teaneck, NJ, 2007, pp. 117-122.
CONFERENCE PANELS AND
PRESENTATIONS
(partial list)
“Untitled talk on
postmodernism,” New Writing Colloquium,
Kootenay School of Writing,
(http://www.kswnet.org/readings/KSW-NPC-14-Silliman.mp3)
“The Evolution of
the Sentence in George Oppen’s Verse,” The
Pleasure of Being Heard: First Symposium on the Work of George Oppen,
“‘My Vocabulary Did
This to Me,’” Jack Spicer/White Rabbit
Conference, New
“Untitled talk on
postmodernism,” Conference of the
International Association of Philosophy and Literature,
“Poets and Intellectuals,”
Panel on The Political Potential of
Modern Poetry, Conference of the Modern Language Association,
“Negative
Solidarity: Revisionism and ‘New American Poetics,’“ Panel on Ideology and Literary Change, Conference of the Modern Language
Association,
“‘When first I saw
that form endearing’: Joyce’s Choices and Our Own,” James Joyce Symposium,
“Canons and
Institutions:
“Poet-Critics versus the Critical Tradition,” 1989 Symposium, Reconstructing Cultural Criticism in America, Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, April, 1989 [Rewritten in 1991 as “The Dysfunction of Criticism”]
“What Do Cyborgs Want? / (Paris, Suburb of the Twentieth Century),” Respondent to Jean Baudrillard’s “Transpolitics, Transexuality, Transaesthetics,” President’s Lecture, Conference on Modern Communication and The Disappearance of Art and Politics, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, May, 1989
“The New Sentence,”
(translated by Viktor Mazin), 1989
International Summer School—Language, Poetry, Consciousness, Poetic
Function and the Soviet Culture Foundation,
“Who Speaks?
Ventriloquism and the Self in Contemporary Poetry,” VIII
“I Wanted to Write
Sentences: Decision Making in the American Longpoem,” Conference of the Modern
Language Association,
“The Dysfunction of
Criticism: Poets and the Critical Tradition of the Anti-Academy,” Conference of
the Modern Language Association,
“Reference and Resistance: Poetry and the Metaphors of Conduction,” Summer Program of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO, July, 1994
“Wild Form,” Fourth Annual Poetry Conference:
Exploring Form and Narrative,
“The Desert Modernism,” Annual Conference of the
Modernist Studies Association,
“Plotless Prose: Robert Duncan’s H.D. Book,” presented at the University of Kansas Poetics Seminar, October, 2000; at the Poetry Center of San Francisco State University, October, 2000; at Lannan Series at Georgetown University, March; 2003; at the Theorizing Series at the University of Pennsylvania, March, 2003
“The Dangerfield Conundrum: A Roundtable on Humor in
Poetry,” edited by Rachel Loden & K. Silem Mohammad from the HumPo Listserv
(http://jacketmagazine.com/33/humpo-discussion.shtml)
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
“Under Albany,” in Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Vol. 29, edited by Joyce Nakamura, Gale Research, Detroit, MI, 1998, pp. 309-352.
PANELS ON THE WORK OF RON SILLIMAN
“Contemporary
Poetry, Alternate Routes: Reading Ron Silliman,” MLA. 111th Convention,
INTERVIEWS
“Interview with Ron Silliman” conducted by Vicki Hudspith, The Poetry Project Newsletter, No. 72, February, 1980, no pagination
“Interview,” conducted by Tom Beckett, The Difficulties: Ron Silliman Issue, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1985, pp. 34-46
“An Interview with
Ron Silliman,” conducted by Larry McCaffery and Sinda Gregory, Alive and Writing: Interviews with American
Authors of the 1980s,
“Ron Silliman interviewed by Julia Blumenreich and Don Marks,” Paper Air, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1989, pp. 86-93
“Ron Silliman interviewed by Michael Amnasan,” Ottotole, No. 3, Spring, 1989, pp. 207-228
“The Politics of Poetry: An Interview with Ron Silliman” by Ron Tanner and Valerie Ross, Cream City Review, Vol. 13, No. 2, Fall, 1989, pp. 75-105
Untitled interview by Manuel Brito in A Suite of Poetic Voices: Interviews with Contemporary American Poets, Kadle Books, Santa Brigida, Spain, 1992, pp. 145-166
Untitled interview
by Charles Bernstein for NPR radio series LINEbreak,
“E-mail Interview with Ron Silliman,” by Thomas C. Marshall and Thomas A. Vogler, in Quarry West 34: Ron Silliman and The Alphabet, edited by Thomas A. Vogler, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, October, 1998, pp. 10-44.
“Ron Silliman Interview,” by Garry Sullivan, in ReadMe, No. 3, Spring 2000, (http://www.jps.net/nada/silliman.htm)
“
“Here Comes Everybody Interview,” by Lance Phillips, on Here Comes Everybody web site, August 2004 (http://herecomeseverybody.blogspot.com/2004/08/ron-silliman-has-written-and-edited-25.html)
“MiPoesias interview” by Shane Allison, MiPoesias: Revista Literaria, vol. 19, no. 3 (http://www.mipoesias.com/Volume19Issue3Gudding/sillimaninterview.html)
“Ron Silliman Interview,”
by Thomas A. Vogler, The Argotist
(http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Silliman%20interview.htm)
“Ron Silliman
Interview,” by Amy King, MiPOradio
(http://www.miporadio.com/Silliman-Ron_Intrvw-w-Amy-King_miPOradio_live@Bowery_Poetry_Club_Nov192005.mp3)
and
(http://www.odeo.com/audio/430859/)
“An interview with Ron Silliman,” by Mark Tursi, Double Room No. 6.
(http://webdelsol.com/Double_Room/issue_six/Ron_Silliman.htm)
ARCHIVES
Correspondence,
notebooks and manuscripts (1965-86) are part of the Archive for New Poetry,
Mandeville Department of Special Collections,
ELECTRONIC MEDIA
Audio Cassettes
From Tjanting,
From
"'Postmodernism': Sign for a
Struggle, Struggle for the Sign,"
Anthology
A
Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press,
2000), edited by Cary Nelson (http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/silliman/silliman.htm)
Ron Silliman section, prepared and compiled by Cary Nelson, includes:
· About Ron Silliman: excerpts from The Difficulties Ron Silliman issue: excerpt from the interview by Tom Beckett, articles by Charles Bernstein and James Sherry (http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/silliman/about.htm)
· On Ketjak: re-edited excerpt from The Marginalization of Poetry by Bob Perelman, excerpt from “Ron Silliman” from Dictionary of Literary Biography by T.C. Marshall, excerpt from Jerry Estrin’s “Exorcise Your Monkey” article from The Difficulties Ron Silliman issue (http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/silliman/ketjak.htm)
· On “Sunset Debris”: excerpt from Wittgenstein’s Ladder by Marjorie Perloff, excerpt from Tom Beckett’s interview in The Difficulties (http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/silliman/sunset.htm)
· On The Chinese Notebook: excerpt from “For Ron Silliman and The Chinese Notebook” from The Difficulties Ron Silliman issue by Allen (sic!) Davies, excerpt from Textual Politics and The Language Poets by George Hartley (http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/silliman/chinese.htm)
· Includes bibliography of books through 1996
CDs
“from Oz,” in Live at the Ear, Vol. 1, 1994, CD, compiled and edited by Charles Bernstein, Oracular Laboratory Recordings, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 (http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/sound/live-ear/silliman-oz.ram)
“Linebreak,”
Interviewed by Charles Bernstein with reading of
(http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/linebreak/programs/silliman)
“Live at the Writers
House,” reading from Oz,
(http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/silliman-oz.html)
Pennsound
(http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Silliman.html
Reading at Writers House,
Introduction by Bob Perelman (http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Silliman/KWH_9-21-04/Silliman-Ron_01_Intro-by-Perelman_UPenn_9-21-04.mp3)
Quindecagon
From Xing
Woundwood
discussion
(http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Silliman/KWH_9-21-04/Silliman-Ron_06_Q&A_UPenn_9-21-04.mp3)
Ear
Talk: “Plotless Prose: Robert Duncan’s H.D. Book,” Theorizing Series,
Factory School
Library of Recorded Sounds
(http://www.sunbrella.net/content/poetry/index.html)
Poetry
(http://www.sunbrella.net/content/poetry/silliman/silliman1.ram)
Poetry
(http://www.sunbrella.net/content/poetry/silliman/silliman2.ram)
Poetry Reading with Rae Armantrout,
(http://www.sunbrella.net/content/poetry/silliman/sill_trout.ram)
Modernisms II: 9 contemporary poets read themselves through modernism
(http://mmetsnt.sas.upenn.edu:8080/ramgen/cgs/wh/live/silliman.rm)
Reading “through” Williams
New Poetics
Colloquium, Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, 1985
Untitled talk on postmodernism
(http://www.kswnet.org/readings/KSW-NPC-14-Silliman.mp3)
Reading from Demo
(http://www.kswnet.org/readings/KSW-NPC-10-Silliman.mp3)
MiPOradio
Reading at Bowery Poetry Club, New York City, November 19, 2005
(http://www.miporadio.com/Silliman-Ron_Intrvw-w-Amy-King_miPOradio_live@Bowery_Poetry_Club_Nov192005.mp3)
and
(http://www.odeo.com/audio/430859/)
The same reading recorded in part by The Jim Behrle show:
(http://cs.mysmartshare.com/Dispatch/Handler.aspx?ct=AK38BNLE0S7R36IRE5NXKO726632681995848950528)
E-zines
5_trope No. 6, from “You,” XLV, XLVI, XLVII (link no longer active, but see 2002)
5_trope No. 13, anthology issue, from “You,” XLV, XLVI, XLVII (http://webdelsol.com/5_trope/13/silliman.htm)
Black Ice, “You XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII”
(http://www.altx.com/profiles/being.html)
Conjunctions, selection of works from the magazine, ®
(http://www.conjunctions.com/)
CrossConnect, Vol.1, No. 3, February, 1996),
(http://tech1.dccs.upenn.edu/~xconnect/volume1/i3/word/rs1.html)
CrossConnect, vol. 4, no. 2, Fall, 1998, “You XXIX, XXX, XXXI”
(http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v4/i2/g/silliman.html)
CrossConnect, vol. 5, No.
2, 2000, “The Silence of the Looms,” from VOG
(http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v5/i2/g/silliman1.html)
CrossConnect, vol.
5, No. 2, 2000, “The Nose of Kim Darby’s Double,” from VOG
(http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v5/i2/g/silliman2.html)
DC Poetry, Anthology 2001,
(http://www.dcpoetry.com/anth2001/silliman.htm)
Electronic Poetry Review, No. 4, 2002,
(http://www.poetry.org/issues/issue4/text/cnotes/rs.htm)
Electronic Poetry Review, No. 5, 2003, “On Brier Island” (http://www.poetry.org/issues/issue5/text/poems/rs1.htm) and “Trouble Ticket” (http://www.poetry.org/issues/issue5/text/poems/rs2.htm) (from VOG)
Grist On-Line, No. 1,
(http://www.phantom.com/~fowler/gol1/fromnon.html)
Grist On-Line, No. 6, 1995,
(http://www.phantom.com/~fowler/zines/g6silliman.html)
Jacket, No. 2, January, 1998,
(http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket02/silliman02.html)
Jacket, No. 6, January, 1999, Balmain, Australia, from “You,” XXXVI, XXXVII, XXXVIII, XXXIX, XL
(http://
www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket06/silliman.html)
Jacket, No. 16, March, 2002,
(http://jacketmagazine.com/16/ov-sill.html)
Logopoeia, 2002, “Melnick’s Pin”
(http://www.logopoeialogopoeia.da.ru/)
Masthead 2, No. 4,
September 2001, “Progressiveness Now”
(http://au.geocities.com/masthead_2/us/silliman.html)
muse apprentice guild, vol. 1, no. 1, August 2002,
(http://www.muse-apprentice-guild.com/ronsilliman/home.html)
Non, No. 2, February, 1998, “From Tjanting”
(http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~moriarty/2/notes.htm)
POeP! 1,
Realpoetik, Seattle,
Sonic Arts
Slope, No. 5, July 2000, “That which is merely
eternal soon rots,” from VOG,
(http://slope.org/slope/poems/silliman.html)
Veer,
(http://www.rancho-loco-press.com/veer/html_iss1/YOUXXXII.htm)
and XXXIII
(http://www.rancho-loco-press.com/veer/html_iss1/YOUXXXIII.htm)
Films
Money, by Henry Hills (appeared as self along with John Zorn, Sally Silvers, Diane Ward, Carmen Vigil, Bruce Andrews, Susie Timmons and Peter Hall), 1984
Home Pages, World Wide Web
http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/silliman
includes bibliography, Demo, “Wild
Form,” Linebreak radio show
http://www.pewarts.org/98/Silliman/index.html
includes materials from Pew Fellowship, “You XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIII,
XXIV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX, XXXII”
Video Recordings
From Tjanting,
From
"'Postmodernism': Sign for a
Struggle, Struggle for the Sign,"
“Poetry and the Politics of Everyday Life,” in The Lectures, Volume One: Ron Silliman, Bernadette Mayer, Ron Padgett, Alice Notley, Thin Air Videos, NYC, NY
Reading from the Bowery Poetry Club on
The Jim Behrle Show,
(http://cs.mysmartshare.com/Dispatch/Handler.aspx?ct=AK38BNLE0S7R36IRE5NXKO726632681995848950528)
TRANSLATIONS
Croatian
For Change (co-authored with Barrett Watten,
Steve Benson, Lyn Hejinian, Charles Bernstein, and Bob Perelman) translated as
“Za Promenu” by Dubravka Djuric, in Delo,
Vol. XXXV, No. 8, 1989, pp. 251-257,
“Disappearance of the Word, Appearance of the World,” translated as “Iscezavanje Reci, Pojavljivanje Sveta” by Adrijana Marcetic in Delo, Vol. XXXV, No. 8, 1989, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, pp. 275-290
From Tjanting, translated by Dubravka Djuric
and Elena Lacok in Delo, Vol. XXXV,
No. 8, 1989,
Danish
From Tjanting, translated as “Mæssende” by
Claus Schatz-Jakobsen in Den Blå Port:
Tidsskrift for Literature, 33/95, København (
An abridged version
of “The New Sentence,” translated as “Den Ny Sætning” by Line Brandt in Nye
Sætninger, Legenda No. 2, 2001, København (
“Migratory Meaning”
translated as “Nomadisk Betydning” by Line Brandt in Nye Sætninger, Legenda
No. 2, 2001, København (
From “Hidden” translated as “Af: Skjult” by Allan Milter Jakobsen in Krydsord, Legenda No. 3, 2001, København (Copenhagen), Denmark, pp. 55-59
From Tjanting translated as “Af: Mæssende” by Allan Milter Jakobsen in Krydsord, Legenda No. 3, 2001, København (Copenhagen), Denmark, pp. 99-102
From Ketjak translated as “Af: Ketjak” by Allan Milter Jakobsen in Krydsord, Legenda No. 3, 2001, København (Copenhagen), Denmark, pp. 153-155.
Excerpts form Tjanting, Ketjak and Hidden forthcoming in translation in Legenda.
“Disappearance of the Word, Appearance of
the World,” translated as “De verdwijning van het word, De verschijning
van de wereld” by Sascha Bru in Yang no. 191, November 2000, pp. 385-393..
“Final For” (from VOG) translated as
“Net Voor” by Ton Vanthof in Poezie Pamflet, October 2004
(http://www.poeziepamflet.nl/silliman_ron.html)
Estonian
From What,
translated by Julius Urt in Paevaleht,
Finnish
From Sunset Debris, translated as Auringonlaskun roinaa by Aki Salmela, in
Tuli&Savu,
French
“Introduction Collective au Movement de Language Poetry,” co-authored with Barrett Watten, Steve Benson, Lyn Hejinian, Charles Bernstein, and Bob Perelman, translated by Jean-Pierre Faye, in Change, No. 41, March, 1982
From Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps, translated as “S’asseyant, debout, marchant,” by Jean Pierre Faye, in Change, No. 41, March, 1982, Paris, France, pp. 178-179
From Tjanting, translated as “Trace,” by Philippe Jaworski in Bulletin A.R.C. Litterature, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, No. 162, 1986, pp. 659-660; reprinted in 21 + 1: Poetes americains d’aujourd’hui, edited by Emmanuel Hocquard and Claude Royet-Journoud, Delta, Universite Paul Valery, Montpellier, France, 1986, pp. 205-207
German
“Disappearance of
the Word, Appearance of the World,” ( translated by
Peter Tischert and printed bilingually as
“Verschwinden des Wortes, Erscheinen der Welt”) in Amerikanische Poetologie: Lyriker and Lyrikerinnen der
Italian
From Ketjak,
translated as “Porta girevole” by Franco La Polla, in Carte Segrete, Nuova Serie, No. 1, 1984, Rome, Italy, pp. 133-135
“From ‘The Chinese Notebook,” translated as “da Il Quaderno Cinese” by William Pagnotta
in Postmoderno E Letteratura, edited
by Peter Carravetta and Paoloi Spedicato, Studi Bompiani, Milano, Italy, 1984,
pp. 318-325
From Tjanting,
translated without title by Gianlucca Rizzo, in Nuova Poesia Americana: San Francisco, edited by Luigi Ballerini
& Paul Vangelisti, Oscar Mondadori, Milano, 2006
From “Sunset Debris,” translated as “da Sunset
Debris” by Gherardo Bertolotti, on Gamm.org
website, Milano, July 2007
(http://gammm.org/index.php/2007/07/09/da-sunset-debris-ron-silliman-2002/)
Japanese
From “I Am Marion
Delgado,” translated by Shuri Kido in Gendaishi
Techo, January, 1988,
Russian
From “The Chinese
Notebook,” translated by Viktor Mazin, published in a samizdat magazine,
“The New Sentence,”
translated by Viktor Mazin, said to have appeared in a magazine in
Serbian
“Postmodernism: Sign for a Struggle, Struggle for the Sign,” translated into Serbian by Dubravka Djuric and published in Gradina, Vol. 26, No. 2-3, 1991, Nis, Yugoslavia, pp. 162-179
“
“Skies, II,” translated by Dubravka Djuric and published in Ovdia, No. 286, October, 1992, Podgoritsa, Serbia, p. 18; reprinted as “Neba II” in Jezik, Poezija, Postmodernizam: Jezička Poeizija U Kontekstu Moderne / Postmoderne Američke Poezije, by Dubravka Đurić (Oktoih 2002, Belgrade, Serbia), pp. 206-207
From
“The Chinese Notebook,” translated by Dubravka Djuric as “Kinseka Beležnica,”
in Antologija novije američke
poezije:
For Change (co-authored with Barrett Watten,
Steve Benson, Lyn Hejinian, Charles Bernstein, and Bob Perelman) translated as
“Za Promenu” by Dubravka Djuric, in Delo,
Vol. XXXV, No. 8, 1989, pp. 251-257,
Spanish
From Ketjak, translated by Estaban Pujals
Gesali in La Pagina, No. 2,
February-May, 1990,
“From The Age of Huts: Sunset Debris (a fragment); from ABC: Blue; from Ketjak (a fragment), La Lengua Radical: Antologia de la poesia norteamericana contemporanea, edited and translated by Esteban Pujals Gesali, 1992, Gramma Poesia, Madrid, Spain, pp. 313-331
“From Toner, Lit, Paradise and Manifest” with English facing, translated by Manual Brito, in Cuadernos del Ateneo de La Laguna, no. 2, 1997, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, pp. 31-35
“If by ‘Writing’ We Mean Literature,” translated into Spanish as “Si por ‘Escritura’ Queremos Decir Literatura” by Margarita Mele, in Nerter, No. 1, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Otoño-Invierno, 1999, pp. 38-39.
“Considerations of
Representability” from The Age of Huts,
translated as “Consideraciones de Representabildad, ” translated by Manuel
Brito in la Pagina 58 (Año XVI,
numero 4, 2004),
From “The Chinese Notebook” (§s 1-25), in Líneas conectadas: nueva poesía de los Estados Unidos, edited by April Lindner, translation editor Hernan Lara Zavala, Sarabande Books, Louisville, KY, 2006, pp. 32-39
“Considerations of Representability” from The Age of Huts, translated as “Consideraciones de Representabildad, ” excerpts from opening and closing of Tjanting translated as “Esto no....,” section XI of Toner translated as “XI,” excerpt from Paradise translated as “El gato ronronea que tiene la lengua escondida....,” exceprt from Toner translated as “Toner, “ “From Theory to Practice,” translated as “De la Teoria a la Practica,” unpublished letters to Lyn Hejinian (dated 12.6.76) and Bruce Andrews (dated 7.30.79), all translated by Manuel Brito, in an anthology of language poetry as yet untitled, forthcoming
WRITING ABOUT RON SILLIMAN (partial list)
“Signification (On Ron Silliman’s The Chinese Notebook),” by Bruce
Andrews, Margins,
“Mohawk and Ketjak,” by Barrett Watten, in “Ron Silliman Feature,” L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Vol. 1, No. 4, August, 1978, op. cit., no pagination
“Ketjak,” by Bob Perelman, San Francisco Review of Books, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1978, pp. 22-23
“The
Tenderloin Times,” by Dwight Chapin,
“Ketjak
in
“Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps,” by John Yau, The Downtown Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1979, p.25
“Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps,” by
“On
the Bus,” by Evelyn Pine, Artbeat,
May/June, 1981,
“What
Does This Do With You
“After Sentence, Sentence,” by Michael Davidson, American Book Review, September-October, 1982, op. cit., p. 3
“The
Crisis at Present: Talk Poems and the New Poet’s Prose,” Poet’s Prose: the Crisis in American Verse, by Stephen Fredman,
Cambridge University Press,
Untitled review of ABC and 4 other books by Geoffrey O’Brien, VLS 25 (Voice Literary Supplement), The Village Voice, April, 1984, pp. 8-9
“The
Word as Such,” by Marjorie Perloff, American
Poetry Review,
“Letter, Word, Sentence,” by Fred Moramarco, San Diego Reader, p. and date not known (probably 1984 or ‘85)
Total Syntax by Barrett Watten, Southern
“The
Fourth Wave” by Wilbur Wood, Bay Guardian,
The Difficulties: Ron Silliman Issue, op. cit., edited by Tom Beckett; includes untitled interview by Tom Beckett, “Places in Hayward” by Larry Eigner, “Ron Silliman” by Hannah Weiner, “Corpses that Devour Their Own Flesh” by Bruce Andrews, “‘The Community of Sound”’ by Rae Armantrout, “‘Exorcise Your Monkey’: Reading Ketjak by Jerry Estrin, “Silent Tjanting: Notations for Translation” by Chris Domingo and David Martin, “A Note on Tjanting” David Bromige, “Plus + Mysterious / Life - Like Labor” by Robert Grenier, “Taking a Stand” by James Sherry, “?s to .s” by Alan Davies, “Narrating Narration: The Shapes of Ron Silliman’s Work” by Charles Bernstein, “Ron Silliman: A Bibliography” by Tom Beckett
“All
That Heaven Allows:
Untitled
review of
“Looming
on/in
“Tenderloin Poets Publish Two Volumes of Verse” by Emily Cutler, Tenderloin Times, February, 1986, p. 10
“New
Language of the Muses,” by David Melnick, San
Francisco Chronicle, Review Section,
Untitled review of The Difficulties: by Sylvester Pollet, Sagetrieb, Vol. 1986, p. 154
Untitled review of The Difficulties: Ron Silliman Issue by John Byrum, PLGC NWSLTR: The Poet’s League of Greater Cleveland Newsletter, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring, 1986, pp 5-6
“What I See in the Silliman Project,” by Thomas White (Stephen Rodefer), Jimmy & Lucy’s House of “K”, No. 6, May, 1986, pp. 137-145
“Silliman’s
‘
“What is ‘Language Poetry’?” by Lee Bartlett, Critical Inquiry No. 12, Summer, 1986, pp. 741-752
“From
the Language Poets,” by Robert Creeley, San
Francisco Chronicle, Review Section,
“Silliman’s
“Another
Look at ‘The Tree’,” by Tom Clark, San
Francisco Chronicle, Review Section,
“Ron Silliman,” by Rae Armantrout, Postmodern Fiction: A Bio- Bibliographical Guide, edited by Larry McCaffery, Greenwood Press, New York, 1986, pp. 503-505
“Life
in
Untitled review of The Difficulties: Ron Silliman Issue by John Bryum, Small Press, January-February, 1987, pp. 69-70
Untitled review of In the American Tree, Small Press Book Review, March-April, 1987, pp. 9-10
Untitled review of In the American Tree by Chuck Cody, The Archive Newsletter, Spring 1987, pp. 32-35
“Reading the Words,” review of In the American Tree by Stephen-Paul Martin, American Book Review, Vol. 9, No. 4, 1987, p. 20
“Contemporary Poetry, Alternate Routes,” by Jerome J. McGann, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 13, No. 3, Spring, 1987, pp. 624-647, reprinted in Social Values and Poetic Acts: The Historical Judgment of Literary Work, Harvard University Press, Cambridge and London, 1988
“‘Stalin as Linguist,”’ by Tom Clark, Partisan Review, Vol. LIV, No. 2, 1987, pp. 299-304
Untitled commentary by Jim Hartz and Sam Moorman, The American Poetry Archive News, Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring, 1987, p. 5
Untitled
review of In The American Tree (in
Serbian) by David Albanari, Pismo,
No. 10.,
Untitled
review of
“Language
Writing,” by Jerome J. McGann,
Untitled review of In the American Tree by Michael Duff, Small Press, October, 1987, pp. 72-73
“Language Poetry, 1971-1986” by Don Byrd, Sulfur 20, 1987, pp. 149-157
“The Words Are Never Our Own” by George Hartley, Temblor, No. 6, 1987, pp. 137-138
“The New Sentence and the Commodity Form: Recent American Writing,” by Andrew Ross in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, ed. by Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg, University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 1987, pp. 361-380
Untitled review of The New Sentence, unsigned (but by Kevin Killian or Dodie Bellamy), in Traffic No. 7, October-December, 1987, p.2
Untitled review of In the American Tree by Ken Edwards in Reality Studios, Vol. 9, 1987, pp. 87-90
“The Science of Writing,” by Richard Silberg, Poetry Flash, No. 178, January, 1988, pp. 1, 4-7.
“My First Try at the Tree,” by David I. Sheidlower, Jimmy & Lucy’s House of “K,” No. 8, January, 1988, pp. 31-36.
“Ett
f_rnyat intresse f_r spraket,” by Gunnar Harding,
“Reading
Ron Silliman’s BART on Bart: Serial
Syntax and
Untitled review of In the American Tree by Bill Mohr, Aerial, No. 4, 1988, pp. 92-101
Untitled review of In the American Tree by Alan Golding, American Poetry, Vol 5, No. 3, Spring, 1988, pp. 93-96
“Radical
Collages,” by Hank Lazer, The Nation,
“Sentences
in Space,” by George Hartley, Temblor,
No. 7, 1988, pp. 89-91; reprinted on the
“Many Messages, Complex Rhythms,” by Dawn Kolokithas, San Francisco Chronicle, Review Section, p. 7, October 30, 1988
“Ron Silliman: Non-Hierarchical Perception,” in Open Form and the Feminine Imagination: The Politics of Reading in Twentieth-Century Innovative Writing, by Stephen-Paul Martin, Maissoneuve Press, Washington, 1988, pp. 173-185
“Notes sur Quelques Poetes Americains,” by Joseph Simas, Action Poetique, nos. 113-114, 1988, pp. 131-134
“‘Deficit Writing’,” by Bruce Campbell, Temblor, No. 8, 1988, pp. 9-10
“Skewed by Design: From Act to Speech Act in Language-Writing,” by Michael Davidson, paper presented at the MLA, December, 1988
“Opposing Poetry,” by Hank Lazer, Contemporary Literature, Vol. 30, No. 1, Spring, 1989, pp. 142-150; republished under the same title as chapter 2 of Opposing Poetries: Vol. One: Issues & Institutions (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1996), pp. 37-46.
“Indifference: Mike Bidlo and Ron Silliman,” by Thad Ziolkowski, Sulfur 24, Spring, 1989, pp. 204-210
“Academic argle-bargle in Montana,” by Cyra McFadden, San Francisco Examiner, Sunday, May 21, 1989, p. E-1, E-4
“‘Negative Solidarity’ Revisited - an editorial assemblage,” Temblor, No. 9, 1989, p. 118
“A Compliment to Ron Silliman’s ‘Negative Solidarity’ in Sulfur 22 & A Note on Lyrical Contention,” by Benjamin Hollander, Temblor, No. 9, 1989, pp. 119-120
“A Note on Silliman’s ‘Negative Solidarity’ in Sulfur 22,” by David Levi Strauss, Temblor, No. 9, p. 121
Untitled review of What, unsigned (by Kevin Killian and/or Dodie Bellamy), Traffic, No. 11, June-August, 1989, p. 6
Textual Politics and the Language Poets,
by George Hartley,
Untitled review of What by Linda A. Frost, Minnesota Review, 1989, pp. 154-157
“The New Sentence” review (in Spanish with English translation) by Carmen Africa Vidal, Arena: International Art, Madrid, Spain, Dec. 1989, pp. 110-111
“The Lightweight Contenders’ New Clothes,” by William Harmon, Parnassus, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 99-124
“A Paradigm Lost: Ron Silliman’s Paradise and the Archaeology of Language,” by Stephen-Paul Martin, Sagetrieb, Vol. 8, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring and Fall, 1989, pp. 201-208
“Ideology and Theory in Recent Experimental Writing, or, The Naming of ‘Language Poetry’,” by Michael Greer, boundary 2, Vol 16, Nos 2/3. pp. 335-355
“The Seduction of Mimi: Language Maligned,” by Robert Buckeye, Contact II, Spring 1990, pp. 56-58
“Wittgensteiniana,” by Charles Bernstein (review of The Age of Huts and several other books), Fiction International, 1990, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 72-84
"The Genealogy of Postmodernism: Contemporary American Poetry," by Albert Gelpi, The Southern Review, Summer 1990, pp. 517-541
“The Alphabet, Spelt from Silliman’s Leaves (A Heideggerian Dialogue),” by Anne Mack and J.J. Rome (pseudonym for Jerome McGann), South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 89, No. 4, Fall, 1990, pp. 737-759
“The Body of Politics and the Politics of Form,” by Don Wellman, O.ars, No. 8, Winter 1990/91, pp. 92-95
“Ron Silliman: una poeta L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E,” by Manuel Brito, Syntaxis 25, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spring, 1991, pp. 101-106
“Regarding the Issue of ‘New Forms,’” by Nathaniel Tarn, in Views from the Weaving Mountain: Selected Essays in Poetics & Anthropology, American Poetry, College of Arts and Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1991 (apparently first published in Tyuoni), reprinted in Jacket, no. 6 (http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket06/tarn-new-form.html), 1998
Untitled review of Leningrad by Marjorie Perloff, Sulfur 29, Fall, 1991, pp. 216-221
Language Poetry: Writing as Rescue, by Linda Reinfeld, Louisiana State University Press, 1992, throughout
“Toward a Wittgensteinian Poetics,” by Marjorie Perloff,” Contemporary Literature, Vol. XXXIII, No. 2, Summer, 1992, pp. 191-213; reprinted in a revised format as “Running Against the Walls of Our Cage” in Wittgenstein’s Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary, University of Chicago Press, 1996 (see especially pp. 200-205)
“Textured Information: Politics, Pleasure, and Poetry in the Eighties,” by Roger Gilbert, Contemporary Literature, Vol. XXXIII, No. 2, Summer, 1992, pp. 243-274
“Appearance of a World,” by Ray Davis, 1992. Published on his website: http://www.kokonino.com/worldmk.html
“Parataxis and Narrative: The New Sentence in Theory and Practice,” by Bob Perelman, American Literature, Vol. 65, No. 2, June 1993, pp. 313-324; published as chapter four of The Marginalization of Poetry (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), pp. 59-78; republished in From Artifice to Indeterminacy: An Anthology of Poetics from 1980 to the Present, edited by Christopher Beach (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998), pp. 24-48.
“Reading & Writing Ron Silliman’s Demo to Ink,” by Hank Lazer, and “Paratactics and Hypostrategies (a response to Ron Silliman’s “Positioning Theory”), by Tyrus Miller, lower limit speech, No. 7, no pagination, fall, 1993
“Language Poetry,” by Michael Davidson, The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, edited by Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, Princeton University Press, 1993, pp. 675-676 (see also “American Poetry,” pp. 47-66)
“A Poetics of Its Own Occasion,” by Paul Mann, Contemporary Literature, Vol. XXXV, No. 1, pp. 171-181.
“‘A
Silly Corpse?’: The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poets, Stein, and
the Nonsense of Reference,” in Touch
Monkeys: Nonsense Strategies for Reading Twentieth-Century Poetry, by
Marnie Parsons,
“Save Silliman from The Alphabet,” by Gary Sullivan, Exile, Vol. 2, No. 3, Summer, 1994, p. 2
Untitled review of N/O by Peter Ganick, Poetic Briefs, No. 19, August, 1995, pp. 13-14..
“Fra Stein til Waldrop: sprogdigtningen og de nye prosadigtere,” by Michel Delville, translated from the French into Danish by Claus Schatz-Jakobsen in Den Blå Port: Tidsskrift for Literature, 33/95, København (Copenhagen), Denmark, pp. 17-30
“Do Tell: Ketjak and Stein’s Narration,” by Tom Marshall, in “Contemporary Poetry, Alternate Routes: Reading Ron Silliman,” MLA. 111th Convention, Chicago, December, 1995.
“Composing the Social: Poetic Form and Social Formation in the Work of Ron Silliman,” by Steve Evans, in “Contemporary Poetry, Alternate Routes: Reading Ron Silliman,” MLA. 111th Convention, Chicago, December, 1995.
“What the El: Lit and Other Word Wiggles,” by Tom Vogler, in “Contemporary Poetry, Alternate Routes: Reading Ron Silliman,” MLA. 111th Convention, Chicago, December, 1995.
Listed in Contemporary Poets, sixth edition, St. James Press, 1995
Literary Voice: The Calling of the Jonah, by Donald Wesling and Tadeusz Slawek, State University of New York Press, 1995.
“Self/Ideology: Corpses that Devour Their Own Flesh,” by Bruce Andrews (reworked from The Difficulties, pp. 1985) in Paradise & Method: Poetics & Praxis (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1996), pp. 208-214
“Reading & Writing Ron Silliman’s Demo to Ink,” by Hank Lazer (republished from lower limit speech, 1993) in Opposing Poetries: Vol. Two: Readings (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1996), pp. 168-176
Untitled Review of Demo to Ink by Tom Vogler, Traffic, No. 17, Spring 1996, pp. 4-5
“Disappearance of Theory, Appearance of Praxis: Ron Silliman, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, and the Essay,” by William Lavender, in Poetics Today, vol. 17, No. 2, Summer, 1996., pp. 181-202
“Shadow and Ash,” by Samuel R. Delaney, in Longer Views: Extended Essays (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1996), pp. 144-173.
“Ron Silliman,” by Thomas Marshall, in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 169: American Poets since World War II, Fifth Series edited by Joseph Conte (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Gale Research, 1996), pp. 253-266
“Mr. Silliman Sale del Campus y Escribe
Poesía Contemporánea,” by Manuel Brito (in Spanish), Cauderno del Ateneo de La Laguna, No. 2, 1997, pp.27-30.
“This L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E,” by Kate Lilley, Jacket no. 2, (http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket02/lilley02.html) , 1997.
“New, Newer, and Newest American Poetries,” by Alan Golding, Chicago Review, Vol. 43, No. 4, 1997, pp. 7-21; reprinted in The World in Time and Space: Towards a History of Innovative American Poetry in Our Time, edited by Edward Foster and Joseph Donahue, Talisman House Publishers, Jersey City, New Jersey, 2002, pp.684-694
“A Chance to Write: Paoli Resident’s Pew Grant Leaves Time for Poetry,” by Aileen E. Gallagher, in Arcade, Vol. 5, No. 20, arts supplement to Suburban Publications newspapers, July 16, 1998, p. 9 (Photos by John Welsh).
“Market analyst-poet Ron Silliman receives Pew Trust artistic grant,” unsigned (but written by Michael Globetti), TSS Access, Vol. 4, No. 3, July/August, 1998, West Chester, PA, p. 13 (internal newsletter of IBM).
“Language Poetry and the New Prose Poem,” in The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Law of Genre by Michel Delville, University Press of Florida, forthcoming 1998
“Poetics, Polemics and the Question of Intelligibility,” by Ben Friedlander, Postmodern Culture, September, 1998 (http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/current.issue/9.1freidlander.html)
“Responses to (mostly) PhillyTalks 3 (Derksen/Silliman) & Post-Reading Discussion,” PhillyTalks 6, edited by Louis Cabris, Kelly’s Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 11, 1998 (entire issue), including (among other works) “I Used to Be Amused. Now, I’m just Disgusted,” by Andrew Klobucar; “untitled” by Michael Magee; “PhillyTalks #3 (Notes After Reading)” by Ben Friedlander; “A Response to Ron Silliman and Jeff Derksen” by Peter Jaeger.”
Quarry West 34: Ron Silliman and The Alphabet, edited by Thomas A. Vogler, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA; includes “E-mail Interview with Ron Silliman,” by Thomas C. Marshall and Thomas A. Vogler; “‘Nevermore’ than: Form, Content and Gesture in Ketjak,” by Thomas C. Marshall; “Education, Equality and Ethnography in The Alphabet,” by Hank Lazer; “Public Poetry: Ron Silliman and the Value of Writing,” by Tyrus Miller; “The Labor of Repetition,” by Lytle Shaw; “Reading Silliman Writing,” by Thomas A. Vogler, “The Language Poet as Autobiographer,” by Marjorie Perloff, October, 1998
“Tottel’s,” entry in A Secret Location on the
“Language Poetry and the Lyric Subject: Ron Silliman’s Albany, Susan Howe’s Buffalo,” in Critical Inquiry, vol. 25, no. 3, Spring, 1999, pp. 405-434, reprinted in a revised form as “Language Poetry and the Lyric Subject: Ron Silliman’s Albany, Susan Howe’s Buffalo,” by Marjorie Perloff, in Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy, University of Alabama Press, 2004, pp. 129-154
“The Secret History of the Equal Sign: L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E between Discourse and Text,” Barrett Watten, Poetics Today, vol. 20, no. 4, Winter 1999, pp. 581-627.
“Poetry of Play, Poetry of Purpose: The Continuity of American Language Poetry,” John R. Woznicki, Moria: A Poetry Journal, vol. 2, no. 4, Spring 2000, http://www.moriapoetry.com/woznicki.htm
Paper
on Legend given by Estaban Pujals at “Transgressing Boundaries and
Strategies of Renewal in American Poetry,”
“Verse vs. Verse: The Language Poets are taking over the academy but will success destroy their integrity,” by Andrew Epstein, Lingua Franca, vol. 10. No. 6, September, 2000, pp. 45-54
“Poets
reflect through modernist mirror,” by Lauren Bialystok, The Daily Pennsylvanian,
“Opgelet. Hier spreekt het kapitalisme,” by Geert Buelens (in Dutch), in Yang no. 191, November 2000, pp. 394-395.
Untitled review of Ò in “Pouch Notes,” by Dale Smith, in The Possum Pouch (http://www.skankypossum.com/pouch.htm), April 2001
“Sætninger,” by Per Aage Brandt, in Nye Sætninger, Legenda No. 2, 2001, København (Copenhagen), Denmark, pp. 129-132 (in Danish)
“Language Poetry: Dissident Practices and the Makings of a Movement,” by Eleana Kim, in Readme No.4, (http://www.jps.net/nada/language1.htm through /language7.htm and /languagebib.htm), May 2001
“Canadian Feminist Writing and American Poetry,” by Eugenia Sojka in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal, 3.2, 2001 (http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb01-2/sojka01.html)
“A Short History of Language Poetry / According to ‘Hecuba Whimsy,’” by Ben Friedlander, in Qui Parle, vol. 12, no. 2, Spring/Summer, 2001, pp. 107-142, reprinted in Friedlander’s Simulcast: Four Experiments in Criticism, University of Alabama Press, 2004.
“Ron Silliman,” by Robert Miltner in Encyclopedia of American Poetry, edited by Eric Haralson, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, New Yok, NY, pagination unknown.
“The Political ‘World’ of the Language Poets,” in Ideological Content and Political Significance of Twentieth-Century American Poetry by John R. Woznicki, Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY, Queenston, Ontario, Canada and Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales, U.K.2002, pp. 151-214
“Z-Sited Path: Late Zukofsky and His Tradition,” by Mark Scroggins, in The World in Time and Space: Towards a History of Innovative American Poetry in Our Time, edited by Edward Foster and Joseph Donahue, Talisman House Publishers, Jersey City, New Jersey, 2002, pp. 147-160
“‘If This Were the Place to Begin’: Little Magazines and the Early Language Poetry Scene,” by Susan Venderborg, in The World in Time and Space: Towards a History of Innovative American Poetry in Our Time, edited by Edward Foster and Joseph Donahue, Talisman House Publishers, Jersey City, New Jersey, 2002, pp. 298-320 (see especially “Transforming the Image: A Modern Tottels,” pp. 303-304
“Language Writing,” by Susan M. Schultz, in The World in Time and Space: Towards a History of Innovative American Poetry in Our Time, edited by Edward Foster and Joseph Donahue, Talisman House Publishers, Jersey City, New Jersey, 2002, pp.321-332
“A Complex Realism: Reading Spring and All as Seminal for Postmodern Poetry,” by Donald Wellman, in William Carlos Williams and the Language of Poetry, edited by Burton Hatlen and Demetres Tryphonopoulos, National Poetry Foundation, Orono, Maine, 2002, pp. 297-317
“The Days of Our Blogs,” by Brian Kim Stefans in The Poetry Project Newsletter, no. 192, December 2002-January 2003, pp. 5-6. (http://www.arras.net/weblog/000035.html#000035)
Jezik, Poezija, Postmodernizam: Jezička Poeizija U Kontekstu Moderne / Postmoderne Američke Poezije, by Dubravka Đurić (Oktoih 2002, Belgrade, Serbia)
“Ron
Silliman’s Language Poetry,” by S.F. Danckaert, Hillsdale Collegian,
(http://www.hillsdale.edu/collegian/articles/2003/April/ronsilliman.html)
“El autor al poder: Internet weblogs o la
muerte del editor,” by Sergio Coddou, El
Mercurio, 8 June, 2003-06-18, Santiago, Chile,
(http://diario.elmercurio.com/rep.asp?id=339008&rep=298)
“Language Poetry and Collective Life,” by Oren Izenberg, Critical Inquiry, vol. 29, no. 4, Autumn 2003, Chicago, IL, pp. 132-159.
“’No
Other Sentence Could Have Followed But This:’ Ron Silliman’s Tjanting,” by Thomas Fink, in Titanic Operas, 2004
(http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/dickinson/titanic/material/finksilliman.html/)
“The (Writers) Workshop,” by Kathryn Mingione, photographs by Luigi Ciuffetelli, Main Line Today, March 2004, pp. 50-57 (esp. pp. 52, 54-55).
Simulcast: Four Experiments in Criticism, by Benjamin Friedlander, University of Alabama Press, 2004, throughout
“‘The avant-garde is always pedagogical’: Experimental Poetics and / as Pedagogy,” Alan Golding, forthcoming
“’What about all this writing?’ Williams and Alternative Poetics,” by Alan Golding in Textual Practice, Vol. 18, no. 2, 2004, pp. 265-282
“Line and Rhythm,” by Dale Smith in House Organ, No. 48, Fall 2004, np
Untitled review of Under Albany by Mark Tursi in Rain Taxi Online Edition, Spring 2005 (http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2005spring/silliman.shtml)
“Poetry
Off the Books: The Internet is where poetry proliferates,” by Craig Morgan
Teicher, Publishers Weekly,
“Publishers
Covet the Well-Placed Blog,” by Cheri Hanson, Vancouver Sun, Weekend Review section,
“Silliman
Commentaries,” by Brian Kim Stefans, Before
Starting Over, Salt Publishing,
“The Return of Narrative in the Poetries of David Antin, Ron Silliman and Lyn Hejinian: New Forms, New Constraints,” by Hélène Aji, in Revue Française d'Études Américaines, forthcoming
“The
Materialisation of Prose: Deixis, Automatisation, Integration and Lineation in
Ron Silliman’s Tjanting,” by
William Watkin, forthcoming
“’Systematic rule-governed violations of convention’: Ron Silliman’s Poetic Procedures,” by William Watkin, forthcoming
“Sentence and Reference in Ron Silliman, by Manuel Brito, unpublished
DISSERTATIONS ABOUT RON SILLIMAN (all or in part)
Present
Tenses in American Poetry by Suzanne Marie Matson, University of
Washington, 1987
“For
Those Who Love to be Astonished”: The Prose Longpoem as Genre by Robert Grotjohn, University of Wisconsin,
1991
Loose Talk and Literary History: Language Poetry, New Formalism and the Construction of Taste in Contemporary American Poetry by William Francis Walsh, Miami University, 1994
Poetic Knowledge as Process: Postmodern Poetics, Ron Silliman’s Language Poetry and Processional Reading, by David Benedetti, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1995
Modern Poetic Prose: Lyricism, Narrative and
the Social Implications of Generic Form by John A. Parras, Columbia University, 1996
Ugly Beauty: Modern Experiments Crossing Poetry and Prose, by Thomas Christopher Marshall, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California. 1997
“Language Poetry and the New Prose Poem,” in The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Law of Genre by Michel Delville, Universte de Liege, Liege, Belgium, published by the University Press of Florida, 1998
Poetics, Politics and “Totalitarianism”: Ezra Pound, Charles Olson and the “Language” Poets by John Raymond Woznicki, Lehigh University, 1998
To
Make Something Happen: Activist Impulses in Contemporary American Poetry by
Nicholas Arnold Yasinksi,
The
Sociology of the Avant-Garde: Politics and Form in Language Poetry and Asian
American Poetry, Timothy Yu,
Language Poetry as Socio-Technological
Critique, by Carl Boon,
Untitled dissertation in progress by Natacha Lallemand at Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle, status unknown
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