Bibliography
Caws, Mary Ann. The poetry of Dada and surrealism: Aragon, Breton, Tzara, Eluard & Desnos. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1970.
A very strange book, filled with reproductions of each artist's illustrative writings.
Dworkin, Craig Douglas, and Kenneth Goldsmith. Against expression: an anthology of conceptual writing. Evanston Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2011.
This is the bible for Conceptual Writing Theory today.
Henry, Brian. The verse book of interviews: 27 poets on language, craft & culture. Amherst, MA: Verse Press, 2005.
This is a fascinating window into the working processes for 27 contemporary poets.
Hughes, Robert. The Shock of the new. New York: Knopf :, 19811980.
This is a classic book on art, art theory, and even lit theory in the 20th century.
Kleon, Austin. Newspaper blackout. New York: Harper Perennial, 2010.
Clever examples of redaction/subtraction poems; you can find a lot of the visuals at google images.
Phillips, Tom, and W. H. Mallock. A humument: a treated Victorian novel. 5th ed. New York, N.Y.: Thames & Hudson, 2012.
A fantastic visual/verbal project that demonstrates many of the methods by which textual books may be altered for artistic purposes.
Plottel, Jeanine Parisier. Collage. New York: New York Literary Forum, 1983.
There's a lot of un-translated French here, but otherwise good on Cubism and early Modern art.
Stambovsky, Phillip. Philosophical conceptualization and literary art: inference, ereignis, and concept-al attunement to the work of poetic genius. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2004.
Way over my head, but it has terrific PhD-level information on conceptual poetry.
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