Craig Dworkin is the author of Dure (Cuneiform, 2004), Strand (Roof, 2005), and Parse (Atelos, 2007). A suite of his poetry in translation was featured in Pleine Marge (no. 39). He has edited the early writings of Vito Acconci (MIT, 2006) and is currently co-editing a collection of uncreative writing entitled Against Expression to be published by MakeNow Press (Los Angeles) in 2008. He teaches at the University of Utah, where he also edits The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing www.ubu.com and Eclipse http://english.utah.edu/eclipse.

'My idea for these poems is that they be like cigarettes. On the one hand, briefly intense and repaying as much focused contemplation as you want to give them -- each is in fact composed according to a rigorous and elided formal logic -- but then also, at the very same time, merely discardable amusements: quickly read and easily forgotten, thrown away without a second thought as soon as they are finished.'


From COPYS

 

WALLS

tryst

murmur