Craig Dworkin


Craig Dworkin is an American poet and Professor of English at the University of Utah.

Biography

Dworkin earned his B.A. from Stanford University and his Ph.D from University of California, Berkeley. He is a poet, critic, editor, and currently a professor at the University of Utah.
Dworkin has written a number of books of poetry, including The Pine-Woods Notebook, Def, Twelve Erroneous Displacements and a Fact, and Alkali. Dworkin is the author of three scholarly monographs: Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography ; No Medium, in which he discusses works that are blank, erased, clear, or silent; and Reading the Illegible. Edited collections include Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, co-edited with Kenneth Goldsmith, The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound, co-edited with Marjorie Perloff, and The Consequence of Innovation: 21st Century Poetics. He has published articles in such diverse journals as October, Grey Room, Contemporary Literature, PMLA, and Critical Inquiry.
Dworkin runs Eclipse, an online archive focusing on digital facsimiles of radical small-press writing from the last quarter of the 20th century.

Scholarly monographs

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