David Melnick
David Melnick (1938–2022 He attended the University of Chicago and University of California, Berkeley.
Book One of Melnick's
Language poetry In the American Tree. Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith wrote about Melnick's Men in Aïda in relation to conceptual poetics in 2010's Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing. Often grouped with Language poetry, Melnick's Men in Aïda has been compared to Celia and Louis Zukofsky's Catullus[4] and PCOET has been discussed alongside Russian Futurist Velimir Khlebnikov's zaum poetics.[5]
Bibliography
- Eclogs, Ithaca House, 1972
- "The ‘Ought’ of Seeing: Zukofsky’s Bottom" in Maps. John Taggart, ed. 1973.[6]
- PCOET, San Francisco: G.A.W.K., 1975
- Men in Aïda, Book One, Berkeley: Tuumba Press, 1983
- A Pin's Fee, 1988
- ISBN 9789491914041. This edition collects three books of Men in Aïda in a single volume.
References
- ^ "Obituary: David Melnick". SFGate. San Francisco Chronicle. 1 March 2022. Retrieved 1 March 2022.
- ^ a b Silliman, Ronald. In the American Tree. Orono: National Poetry Foundation, 1986. 602.
- OCLC 185423402. Retrieved 24 December 2009.
- ^ Dworkin, Craig Douglas, and Kenneth Goldsmith. Against Expression: an Anthology of Conceptual Writing. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2011. 418.
- ^ Lutzkanova-Vassileva, Albena. The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry: Reference, Trauma, and History. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. 175-181.
- ^ Mark Scroggins. "David Melnick: PCOET" Culture Industry. 20 April, 2005.
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