Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age

Kenneth Goldsmith

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Paper, 272 pages, 27 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14991-4
$22.95 / £15.95

September, 2011
Cloth, 272 pages, 27 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14990-7
$67.50 / £46.50

Web Features:

• Listen to an interview with Kenneth Goldsmith on To the Best of Our Knowledge.
• Read a special issue on uncreative writing in American Book Review.
• Best Manifesto on Stealing Other Writers’ Work, a review in Guernica.
• Bookforum on Kenneth Goldsmith
• The "Uncreative Writer" in Washington
• Kenneth Goldsmith's posts and writings for the Poetry Foundation website.
• Read the introduction or the chapter Why Appropriation?
• Visit Kenneth Goldsmith's website UbuWeb and Twitter feed

Related Subjects

• Literary Criticism and Theory
• Literary Studies
• Poetry

About the Author

Kenneth Goldsmith is the author of ten books of poetry and founding editor of the online archive UbuWeb (ubu.com). He is the coeditor of Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing and the editor of I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews, which was the basis for an opera, "Trans-Warhol," that premiered in Geneva in March of 2007. An hour-long documentary of his work, Sucking on Words, premiered at the British Library. He teaches writing at The University of Pennsylvania and is a senior editor of PennSound, an online poetry archive.

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