Craig Dworkin
MOTES
by Craig Dworkin
Craig Dworkin's "Motes" imitates a form created by Bob Grenier in A Day at the Beach and Sentences. As Grenier says in the "Afterword" - "What’s wrong with our Community of Poets, such that each next 'new one' has to be so studiously/stylistically ('New'), Idiosyncratic…?"
THE CONSEQUENCE OF INNOVATION: 21ST CENTURY POETICS
by Craig Dworkin, Ed.
Dworkin has edited a collection of amazing new essays on poetics, summarizing the variety of poetries that have arisen in innovative writing during the past 10 years. Filling the gap that has arisen in publishing writing on new poetry…
STRAND
by Craig Dworkin
"Craig Dworkin produces a poetry rich and strange, a counterpart of French Oulipo but with a characteristically American pragmatic inflection. Dworkin takes seriously Wittgenstein's axiom that there are no gaps in grammar, that everything is already there if we will only see the connections"
- Marjorie Perloff
THE PINE-WOODS NOTEBOOK
by Craig Dworkin
Following the traces of the trail blazed by Francis Ponge in Le Carnet du bois de pins (1947), The Pine-Woods Notebook offers a simultaneous study of two environments. It documents the ecologies of two particular stands of conifers (one in the Wasatch front of the Rockies’ western edge, the other in the coastal Cascades of the Pacific Northwest); at the same time, it investigates the linguistic environment at the intersection of the words pitch and pine in all of their denotations.