Selected Bibliography
and Links

Books

Bad History (Berkeley, Calif.: Atelos Press, 1998)
·         http://www.atelos.org/badhistory.htm

Frame: 1971–1990 (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1997)
·         http://www.sunmoon.com

Leningrad: American Writers in the Soviet Union. With Ron Silliman, Lyn Hejinian, and Michael Davidson (San Francisco: Mercury House, 1991)
·         http://www.wenet.net/~mercury/d.htm#lenin

Progress (New York: Roof Books, 1985)
·         http://www.segue.org/watten.htm

Chapters

“Total Syntax: The Work in the World,” in Christopher Beach, ed., Artifice and Indeterminacy: An Anthology of New Poetics (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999)
·         http://www.uapress.ua.edu/authors/beach.html

“Nonnarrative/History,” in Peter Baker, ed., Onward: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (New York: Peter Lang, 1996)
·         http://www.peterlang.com/titles/GenTitle.asp?Title=2198&Category=7

Articles

“The Secret History of the Equal Sign: L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Between Discourse and Text,” Poetics Today 20, no. 4 (Winter 1999 [appeared 2000])
·         http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/poetics_today/v020/20.4watten.html

“An Epic of Subjectivation: The Making of Americans,” Modernism/Modernity 5, no. 2 (Spring 1998)
·         http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modernism-modernity/v005/5.2watten.html

 “Post-Soviet Subjectivity in Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and Ilya Kabakov,” Postmodern Culture (January 1993)
·         http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v003/3.2watten.html

Literary essays

“Zone: The Poetics of Space,” mark(s) (on-line journal) 2 (September 2000)
·         http://www.markszine.com

“Barrett Watten and Rachel Blau DuPlessis,” Philly Talks 13 (November 1999)
·         http://www.english.upenn.edu/~wh/phillytalks/archive.html

Poetry and creative prose

“Screen Saver” (Bad History 18), non (on-line journal) 3 (1998)
·         http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~moriarty/3/contents.htm

Publications in anthologies

From Complete Thought, in Poems for the Millennium, vol. 2, ed. Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998)
·         http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/5617.html

“Position” and from Bad History, in Onward: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, ed. Peter Baker (New York: Peter Lang, 1996)
·         http://www.peterlang.com/titles/GenTitle.asp?Title=2198&Category=7

“Statistics,” “Radio,” and from Progress, Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, ed. Paul Hoover (New York, 1995)
·         http://www.wwnorton.com/english/postmod/main.htm

Readings and talks (audio and video files)

From Under Erasure, in Live at the Ear, ed. Charles Bernstein, Elemenope CD 885905-36-X

·         http://epc.buffalo.edu/sound/live-ear

Philly Talks no. 13, with Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania (November 1999)

·         http://www.english.upenn.edu/~wh/phillytalks/archive.html

Workshops and seminars

“Avant-Garde and Cultural Studies,” New Modernisms II, University of Pennsylvania, October 2000
·         http://www.psu.edu/dept/english/MSA/programdescriptions.html

Theses and essays directed

Barbara Webb, “The Intersection of Modernism, Race, and Performance in the Original Production of Gertrude Stein’s Four Saints in Three Acts” (MA, 1998; director)
·         http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modernism-modernity/v007/7.3webb.html

Biographical citation

Jacques Debrot, “Barrett Watten,” Dictionary of Literary Biography (Farmington Hills, Mich., Gale Research, 1998)
·         http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jconte/DLBIntroduction.htm

Festschrift

Barrett Watten: Contemporary Poetics as Critical Theory, special issue of Aerial, ed. Rod Smith (1994)
·         www.durationpress.com/edge/aerial8.htm

Book reviews

Steve Evans, review of Bad History, Lagniappe (on-line journal) 1, no. 1 (n.d.)
·         http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~foust/A1.html#watten

Articles discussing my work

Kristin Prevallet, “The Exquisite Extremes of Poetry (Barrett Watten and Amiri Baraka on the Brink),” Jacket (on-line journal) 12 (October 2000)
·         http://www.jacket.zip.com.au:80/jacket12/prevallet-orono.html

David Hess, “No Surprises: On Barrett Watten,” Jacket (on-line journal) 12 (October 2000)
·         http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket12/hess-david.html

Alex Blazer, “Charting Ironic Progress: The Reflexive and the Romantic in Barrett Watten's Progress,” Moria (on-line journal) 2, no. 3 (Winter 2000)
·         http://www.moriapoetry.com/blazer.htm

Articles discussing my work in relation to contexts

John R. Woznicki, “Poetry of Play, Poetry of Purpose: The Continuity of American Language Poetry,” Moria (on-line journal) 2, no. 4 (Spring 2000)
·         http://www.moriapoetry.com/woznicki.htm

Benjamin Friedlander, “Poetics, Polemic, and the Question of Intelligibility,” Postmodern Culture (on-line journal), 10, no. 2 (January 2000)
·         http://calliope.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/current/9.1friedlander.html

Marjorie Perloff, “Language Poetry and the Lyric Subject: Ron Silliman’s Albany, Susan Howe’s Buffalo,” Critical Inquiry [ref. t/k]
·         http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/perloff/langpo.html

Thurston Scott, “Approaches to Recent British and American Poetics for the Creative Writer,” article published at Edge Hill College of Higher Education, U.K. (n.d.)
·         http://www.ehche.ac.uk/study/schsubj/human/english/scott4.htm

Articles discussing contexts for my work

Marjorie Perloff, “After Language Poetry: Innovation and Its Theoretical Discontents” (n.d.)
·         http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/perloff/after_langpo.html

Jeff Derksen, “Where Have All the Equal Signs Gone?: Inside and Outside the L=A=N= G=U=A=G=E Site,” My New Idea (on-line journal; n.d.)
·         http://www.lot.at/mynewidea_com/critframeset.html

Michael Barrett, “Conference on the Left: Assembling Alternatives, August 29-September 2, 1996, ebr6 (on-line journal; Winter 1997-98)
·         http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev6/r6barrett/r6barleft.htm

George Hartley, Textual Politics and the Language Poets (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989)
·         http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/hartley.html

Literary responses to my work

Gary Sullivan, “Nada Gordon: Interview,” readme (on-line journal) 1 (Fall 1999)
·         http://www.jps.net/nada/gordon.htm

Robert Glück, “Long Note on New Narrative,” Narrativity (on-line journal) 1 (n.d.)
·         http://www.sfsu.edu/~newlit/narrativity/issue_one/gluck.html

Johanna Isaacson, “Three Writers,” nowhere500 (anonymous website; n.d.)
·         http://www.nowhere500.com/three.html

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