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Craig Dworkin
Born (1969-01-18) January 18, 1969 (age 55)
Bloomington, Indiana
OccupationPoet, critic, editor, professor
Website
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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]

Education and career

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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 to 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]

Eclipse

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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] Dworkin started the archive in 2002 to provide readers and scholars with access to avant-garde works that were no longer available in print from their original publishers; Eclipse later expanded to publish selected new works and born-digital publications in the spirit of those earlier presses.[29] The archive's name is an homage to Douglas Messerli’s Sun & Moon press.[29]

Eclipse includes high-resolution scans of every page of its included texts, most from Dworkin's personal collection,[4] in an attempt to "conserve ... the facture and material specificity of the book or printed document as an object."[30] Dworkin co-manages the archive with Danny Snelson, assistant professor of English at UCLA.[31]

Works

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Scholarly monographs

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  • 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

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Poetry books and pamphlets

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Craig Dworkin". The University of Utah. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Craig Dworkin". The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. 2013. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
  3. ^ "Craig Dworkin". Mapping Literary Utah. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
  4. ^ a b c LaMarre, James (5 January 2016). "Poetic protocols: An interview with Craig Dworkin". Jacket2. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  5. ^ Gossett, Michael (4 March 2019). "Eclipse Archive". Archival Encounters. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
  6. ^ "Assistant professors join faculty". Princeton Weekly Bulletin. 16 November 1998. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  7. ^ "Board approves 14 promotions". Princeton Weekly Bulletin. 2004. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  8. ^ Sacksteder, Joe (April 2022). ""Helicography by Craig Dworkin"". The Rupture. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
  9. ^ "Al Filreis and Danny Snelson discuss The Pine-Woods Notebook". Kenning Editions. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  10. ^ "From DEF – A Long Poem". Arcade: A Digital Salon. Stanford. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  11. ^ Liberty, Megan N. (April 2017). "Reading as Art & Publishing as Artistic Practice". Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
  12. ^ Brunvand, Amy (3 April 2016). "Poetry as Mineralogy: Craig Dworkin's Conceptual Poetry Crystalizes in Alkali". Artists of Utah. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  13. ^ Williams, Tyrone (9 June 2014). "Dworkin after Coolidge: 'The Crystal Text' stripped bare ..." Jacket2. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  14. ^ Burt, Stephanie (7 February 2013). "Games About Frames: Minimalists Craig Dworkin and Michael O'Brien". Boston Review. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  15. ^ "Exhibitions and events: The Perverse Library". The Laurence Sterne Trust. 2010. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  16. ^ Stephens, Paul (2009). "Self-Portrait in a Context Mirror: Pain and Quotation in the Conceptual Writing of Craig Dworkin". Postmodern Culture. 19 (3). Johns Hopkins University Press. doi:10.1353/pmc.2009.0004.
  17. ^ Jackson, Virginia (December 2022). "Virginia Jackson reviews Radium of the Word". Critical Inquiry. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
  18. ^ "Dworkin discusses Radium of the Word". YouTube. May 2021. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
  19. ^ Malyszek, Chelsea (7 November 2020). "The Poet and the Dictionary". The Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  20. ^ Drucker, Johanna (9 July 2013). "Understanding Media: Craig Dworkin's "No Medium"". The Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  21. ^ Leong, Michael (8 June 2013). "Reading the "Nothings that Are": Craig Dworkin's "No Medium"". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  22. ^ Khalip, Jacques (October 2004). "Harder to See". Boston Review. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  23. ^ Reed, Brian (June 2016). "Idea Eater: The Conceptual Lyric as an Emergent Literary Form". Mosaic. 49 (2). University of Manitoba: 1–18. doi:10.1353/mos.2016.a621125. JSTOR 44030581. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  24. ^ Dworkin, Craig Douglas (Winter 2001). "Fugitive Signs". October. 95. The MIT Press: 90–113. JSTOR 779201. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
  25. ^ Dworkin, Craig (Fall 2005). "Whereof One Cannot Speak". Grey Room. 21 (21): 46–69. doi:10.1162/152638105774539798. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  26. ^ Dworkin, Craig (Spring 2007). "The Imaginary Solution". Contemporary Literature. 48 (1). University of Wisconsin Press: 29–60. doi:10.1353/cli.2007.0023. JSTOR 4489188. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  27. ^ Dworkin, Craig (May 2008). "The Poetry of Sound". PMLA. 123 (3). Cambridge University Press: 755–761. JSTOR 25501896. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  28. ^ Dworkin, Craig (Summer 2018). "Poetry in the Age of Consumer-Generated Content". Critical Inquiry. 44 (4): 674–705. doi:10.1086/698173. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  29. ^ a b Higgs, Christopher (1 March 2017). "Helping to Redraw the Map of 20th Century Literature: In Conversation with Craig Dworkin, editor of Eclipse online archive of avant-garde writing". Entropy Mag. Archived from the original on 2017-03-01. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  30. ^ Dworkin, Craig (Fall 2009). "Hypermnesia" (PDF). Boundary 2. 36 (3). Duke University Press: 77–95. doi:10.1215/01903659-2009-021. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
  31. ^ Snelson, Danny (6 June 2023). "An Elegy for Jimmy & Lucy's House of "K" (1984–1989)". Post45. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
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