Ron Silliman Bibliography
[Ed. Note: Excerpted from the Electronic Poetry Center's Silliman bibliography. See the complete bibliography on their site, which includes an extensive bibliography of Silliman's poems in periodicals.]
BOOKS: POETRY
Crow, Ithaca House, Ithaca, NY, 1971
Mohawk, Doones Press, Bowling Green, OH, 1973
Nox, Burning Deck, Providence, RI, 1974
Ketjak, This Press, San Francisco, CA, 1978
Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps, Tuumba, Berkeley, CA 1978
Legend (collaboration with Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray Di Palma and Steve McCaffery), L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E/Segue, New York, NY, 1980
Tjanting, The Figures, Berkeley, CA, 1981; Salt, Cambridge, UK/Australia, forthcoming 2001
Bart, Potes & Poets Press, Hartford, CT, 1982
ABC, Tuumba, Berkeley, CA, 1983
Paradise, Burning Deck, Providence, RI, 1985 (1985 Poetry Center Book Award)
The Age of Huts, Roof Books, New York, 1986
Lit, Potes & Poets Press, Hartford, CT, 1987
What, The Figures, Great Barrington, MA, 1988
Manifest, Zasterle Press, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, 1990
Leningrad (collaboration with Michael Davidson, Lyn Hejinian, and Barrett Watten), Mercury House, San Francisco, CA, 1991
Demo to Ink, Chax Press, Tucson, AZ, 1992
Toner, Potes & Poets Press, E. Hartford, CT, 1992
Jones, Generator Press, Mentor, OH, 1993
N/O, Roof Press, New York, NY, 1994
Xing, Meow Press, Buffalo, NY, 1996
MultiPlex, (includes two works by Karen Mac Cormack), Wild Honey Press, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, 1998
Ò, Drogue Press, New York, NY, 1999
BOOKS: CRITICISM
The New Sentence, Roof, New York, NY, 1987
BOOKS: ANTHOLOGIES
In the American Tree, National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, Orono, ME, 1986; second edition forthcoming, 2001
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, Oakland and San Francisco, CA
“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, Milwaukee, WI
“Realism,” Ironwood, No. 20, 1983, Tucson, AZ, pp. 61-121
In the American Tree, National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, Orono, ME, 1986
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, London, 1991 (co-editor)
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)
Alphabet Anthology, edited by Joyce Holland, X Press, Iowa City, IA, 1973
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, San Francisco, CA, 1977
The Big House, edited by Michael Slater, Ailanthus Press, New York, NY, 1978
The Pushcart Prize: IV, edited by Bill Henderson, Pushcart Press, Yonkers, NY, 1979
The Poets’ Encyclopedia, edited by Michael Andre, Unmuzzled Ox, New York, NY, 1979
The Poetry Reading, edited by Stephen Vincent and Ellen Zweig, Momo’s Press, San Francisco, CA, 1981
A Century in Two Decades, edited by Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, Burning Deck, Providence, RI, 1982
Claims for Poetry, edited by Donald Hall, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1983
The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL, 1984
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, Carbondale, IL, 1985
Alles und Noch Viel Mehr: Das Poetische ABC, edited by G.J. Lischka, Bentelli, Bern, Switzerland, 1985
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, Orono, ME, 1986
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, U. of Illinois Press, 1988
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, New York, 1990
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, Santa Brigida, Spain, 1992
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, Los Angeles, CA, 1996
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
Poetics@, edited by Joel Kuszai, Roof Books, New York, NY, 1999
Anthology of Modern American Poetry, edited by Cary Nelson, Oxford University Press,
Oxford, 2000
Poetry and the Year 2000, edited by Leslie Davis, Xurban Press, Westminster, CO, forthcoming
CRITICAL WRITING (partial list)
“The Soft Hello,” Salt Lick, Vol. 2, nos. 1&2, 1972, Quincy, IL, pp. 50-62
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, Shippensburg, PA, pp. 72-80
“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)
“Ubeity,” A Symposium on Clark Coolidge: Stations 5, Winter, 1978, Milwaukee, WI, pp. 19-22
“Nice,” L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Vol 1. No. 1, February, 1978, New York, NY, no pagination, reprinted in The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book , op. cit., p. 250
“Space May Produce New Wor(l)ds,” Montemora 4, 1978, New York, NY, pp. 289-290
“The Williams Influence,” San Francisco Review of Books, Vol. 4, No. 1, May, 1978, pp. 42-44
“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, New York, NY, no pagination
“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 Bell, PA, pp. 6-13
“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, San Francisco, CA, pp. 190-217, abridged in Claims for Poetry, op. cit., pp. 377-398, and in In the American Tree, op. cit.
“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, Orono, ME, pp. 85-89
“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.
“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, Cambridge, MA, pp. 132-134
“For Charles Bernstein has such a Spirit...,” The Difficulties: Charles Bernstein Issue, Fall, 1982, Kent, OH, pp. 98-114
“Migratory Meaning: The Parsimony Principle in the Poem,” Poetics Journal, No. 2, September, 1982, Oakland and Berkeley, CA, pp. 27-41
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, Tucson, AZ, pp. 62-70, reprinted in a corrected version, No. 21, 1983, pp. 142-149
“Composition as Action,” Poetics Journal, No. 3, May, 1983, Oakland and Berkeley, CA, pp. 73-76
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, Los Angeles, CA, pp. 184-185
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, Carbondale, IL, 1985, pp. 166-191
“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, Nis, Yugoslavia, pp. 162-179
“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 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press), pp. 183-184
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: New Hope for the Disappeared,” in The Politics of Poetic Form: Poetry and Social Policy, edited by Charles Bernstein (New York: Roof Books, 1990), pp. 149-174
“Unfinished Business: SR at 20,” in program for 20th anniversary party of Socialist Review, November 17, 1990
“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, San Jose, CA, No. 6, July, 1993, no pagination
“Positioning Theory,” in lower limit speech: a newsletter in poetics, San Jose, CA, No. 6, July, 1993, no pagination
“The Practice of Art,” afterword 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 Leningrad”, in Aerial 8, Barrett Watten issue, 1995, Washington, DC, pp. 141-168
“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.
“My 20th Century,” in Poetry and the Year 2000, edited by Leslie Davis, Xurban Press, Westminster, CO, forthcoming
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, Chicago,
December, 1995. Chaired by Charles Bernstein. Included “Do Tell: Ketjak and Stein’s Narration,” by Tom Marshall; “Composing the Social: Poetic Form and Social
Formation in the Work of Ron Silliman,” by Steve Evans; and “What the El: Lit
and Other Word Wiggles,” by Tom Vogler.
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, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Il, 1987, pp.240-56
“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, Buffalo, NY, 1996
“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)
ARCHIVES
Correspondence, notebooks and manuscripts (1965-86) are part of the Archive for New Poetry, Mandeville Department of Special Collections, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
ELECTRONIC MEDIA
Audio Cassettes
From Tjanting, 1/1/78, 60 minutes, #307/256, Archive for Poetry, San Francisco State University
From Paradise 10/6/84, 41 minutes, #598/506, Archive for Poetry, San Francisco State University
"'Postmodernism': Sign for a Struggle, Struggle for the Sign," 5/21/85, 110 minutes, #716/576, Archive for Poetry, San Francisco State University
Anthology
A Multimedia
Companion to Anthology of
Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2000),
edited by Cary Nelson (http://www.english.illinois.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.illinois.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.illinois.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.illinois.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.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/silliman/chinese.htm)
CDs
“from Oz,” in Live at the Ear, Vol. 1, 1994, CD, compiled and edited by Charles Bernstein, Oracular Laboratory Recordings, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Radio Program
“Linebreak,”
Interviewed by Charles Bernstein with reading of Albany and a selection from Xing,
(http://epc.buffalo.edu/linebreak/programs/silliman)
E-zines
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),
Philadelphia, PA, “from ‘Under’”
(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)
Grist On-Line, No. 1, New York, NY, “from
‘Non,’” no pagination
(http://www.phantom.com/~fowler/gol1/fromnon.html)
Grist On-Line, No. 6, 1995, New York, NY, “from ‘Under,’” no pagination (http://www.phantom.com/~fowler/zines/g6silliman.html)
Jacket, No. 2, January, 1998, “The
Marginalization of Poetry by Bob Perelman,”
(http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket02/silliman02.html)
Jacket, No. 6, January, 1999, from
“You,” XXXVI, XXXVII, XXXVIII, XXXIX, XL
(http://
www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket06/silliman.html)
Non, No. 2, February, 1998, “From Tjanting”
(http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~moriarty/2/notes.htm)
Slope, No. 5, July 2000, “That which is merely eternal soon rots,”
from VOG,
(http://slope.org/slope/poems/silliman.html)
Veer, Dallas, TX, from “You,” XXXII
(http://www.rancho-loco-press.com/veer/html_iss1/YOUXXXII.htm)
and XXXIII
(http://www.rancho-loco-press.com/veer/html_iss1/YOUXXXIII.htm)
Home Pages, World Wide Web
http://epc.buffalo.edu/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, 1/1/78, 60 minutes, #307/256, Archive for Poetry, San Francisco State University
From Paradise 10/6/84, 41 minutes, #598/506, Archive for Poetry, San Francisco State University
"'Postmodernism': Sign for a Struggle, Struggle for the Sign," 5/21/85, 110 minutes, #716/576, Archive for Poetry, San Francisco State University
“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
“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, San Francisco Examiner, Jan. 7, 1979, Section B, p. 1
“Ketjak in San Francisco,” by Steve Benson, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Vol. 2, No. 8, June, 1979, no pagination, reprinted in The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, op. cit., pp. 272-273
“Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps,” by John Yau, The Downtown Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1979, p.25
“Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps,” by Henry Hills, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Vol. 3, No. 11, January, 1980, no pagination, reprinted in The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, op. cit., pp. 273-274
“On the Bus,” by Evelyn Pine, Artbeat, May/June, 1981, San Francisco, CA, p. 31
“What Does This Do With You Reading?” by Jed Rasula, Poetics Journal, No. 1, January, 1982, Oakland and Berkeley, CA, pp. 66-67
“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, Cambridge UK, 1983, pp 134-169
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, Philadelphia, PA, Vol. 13, No. 3, May/June, 1984, pp. 15-22, reprinted in Dance of the Intellect, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1986
“Letter, Word, Sentence,” by Fred Moramarco, San Diego Reader, p. and date not known (probably 1984 or ‘85)
Total Syntax by Barrett Watten, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL, 1984, throughout
“The Fourth Wave” by Wilbur Wood, Bay Guardian, April 3, 1985, pp. 14-22
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: Paradise in the Trenches,” by Joel Lewis, Poetry Project Newsletter, No. 117, December, 1985, pp. 1, 8
Untitled review of Paradise, unsigned (but by Brad Morrow) in Conjunctions, No. 8, 1986, p. 256
“Looming on/in Paradise” by Bill Luoma, The Archive Newsletter, UCSD Libraries, Winter, 1986, pp. 14-17
“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, April 6, 1986, p. 5
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 ‘Paradise’,” by Fanny Howe, Poetics Journal, No. 6, 1986, pp. 133-134
“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, September 28, 1986, p. 8
“Silliman’s Phoenix: A Bird of ‘Paris dyes,”’ by Steve Abbott, Poetry Flash, No. 163, October, 1986, pp 1, 9, 20
“Another Look at ‘The Tree’,” by Tom Clark, San Francisco Chronicle, Review Section, October 12, 1986, pp. 14-15
“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 Poetry City”, by Ken Edwards, City Limits (London, U.K.), January 1-8, 1987, no pagination
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
Review (title not known) 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., Yugoslavia, Summer, 1987, pp. 243-244.
Untitled review of Paradise by Dan Beaver, Gargoyle, 32/33, 1987, p. 323
“Language Writing,” by Jerome J. McGann, London Review of Books, October 15, 1987, pp. 6-8
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, Dagenns Nyhetter, Sweden, Jan. 27, 1988
“Reading Ron Silliman’s BART on Bart: Serial Syntax and Paradise” by Rob Wilson, American Poetry, Vol. 5, No. 3, Winter 1988, 33-41
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, July 2-9, 1988, pp. 24-26; reworked slightly as “Outlaw to Classic: The Poetry of Charles Bernstein and Ron Silliman,” Chapter 1 of Opposing Poetries, Vol. Two: Readings (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1996) pp. 6-18
“Sentences in Space,” by George Hartley, Temblor, No. 7, 1988, pp. 89-91
“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, University of Indiana Press, 1989, throughout
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 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
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, University of Toronto Press, 1994, pp. 170-205
“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.
“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.
“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 Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980, written and edited by Steven Clay and Rodney Phillips in conjunction with the show by the same name at the New York Public Library (New York: New York Public Library/Granary Books, 1998), pp. 242-244.
“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
“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
“‘The avant-garde is always pedagogical’: Experimental Poetics and / as Pedagogy,” Alan Golding, unpublished.
“Sentence and Reference in Ron Silliman, by Manuel Brito, unpublished
What is Language Poetry? by Benjamin Friedlander, unpublished
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