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BOOKS: POETRY
Crow,
Mohawk, Doones Press,
Nox, Burning Deck,
Ketjak, This Press,
Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps, Tuumba,
Legend (collaboration with Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray Di
Palma and Steve McCaffery), L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E/Segue,
(http://www.princeton.edu/eclipse/projects/LEGEND/legend.html)
Tjanting, The Figures,
(http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smc/1876857196.htm)
Bart, Potes & Poets Press,
(http://www.potespoets.org/chapbooks/bart.htm)
ABC, Tuumba,
The Age of Huts, Roof Books,
(http://www.roofbooks.com/Book/index.cfm?GCOI=93780100939290)
Lit, Potes & Poets Press,
(http://www.potespoets.org/catalog/lit.htm)
What, The Figures, Great
Manifest, Zasterle Press,
Demo to Ink, Chax Press,
Toner, Potes & Poets Press,
(http://www.potespoets.org/catalog/toner.htm)
Jones, Generator Press,
N/O, Roof Press,
(http://www.roofbooks.com/book/index.cfm?GCOI=93780100636110)
Xing, Meow Press,
(http://www.factoryschool.org/meowpress/silliman.html)
MultiPlex, (includes two works by Karen Mac Cormack), Wild Honey
Press, Bray, Co.
(R), Drogue Press,
Woundwood, Cuneiform Press,
(http://www.cuneiformpress.com/wound.html)
The Age of Huts (compleat),
(http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10742.html)
The Alphabet,
BOOKS: CRITICISM
The New Sentence, Roof,
(http://www.roofbooks.com/Book/index.cfm?GCOI=93780100484640)
BOOKS: MEMOIRS
Under
(http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/sml/1844710513.htm)
The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, Parts 1-IV, co-authored with Bob Perelman, Barrett Watten, Steve Benson, Carla Harryman, Tom Mandel, Kit Robinson, Lyn Hejinian, Rae Armantrout & Ted Pearson, Mode A, Detroit, MI, 2006-2007
BOOKS: ANTHOLOGIES
In the American Tree, National Poetry
Foundation, University of Maine, Orono, ME, 1986; second edition, 2002
(http://www.upne.com/0-943373-51-4.html)
E-BOOKS
N/O, Roof Books,
(http://www.roofbooks.com/book/index.cfm?GCOI=93780100636110)
Sunset Debris,
Ubu Editions,
(http://www.ubu.com/ubu/silliman_sunset.html_)
2197, Ubu
Editions,
(http://www.ubu.com/ubu/silliman_2197.html)
The Chinese Notebook, Ubu Editions,
(http://www.ubu.com/ubu/silliman_chinese.html)
Legend (collaboration with Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Ray Di
Palma and Steve McCaffery), Eclipse,
(http://www.princeton.edu/eclipse/projects/LEGEND/legend.html)
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,
“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,
“Realism,” Ironwood, No. 20, 1983,
In the American Tree, National Poetry
Foundation,
(http://www.upne.com/0-943373-51-4.html)
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,
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)
Selected Poems from the
Alphabet Anthology, edited by Joyce Holland, X Press,
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,
The Big House, edited by Michael Slater, Ailanthus Press, New York, NY, 1978
The Pushcart Prize: IV, edited by Bill Henderson, Pushcart Press,
The Poets’ Encyclopedia, edited by Michael Andre, Unmuzzled Ox,
The Poetry Reading, edited by Stephen Vincent and Ellen Zweig,
Momo’s Press,
A Century in Two Decades, edited by Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop, Burning Deck, Providence, RI, 1982
Claims for Poetry, edited by Donald Hall,
The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles
Bernstein, Southern Illinois University Press,
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,
Alles und Noch Viel Mehr: Das Poetische ABC, edited by G.J.
Lischka, Bentelli,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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
From Artifice to Indeterminacy: An Anthology of Poetics from 1980 to
the Present, edited by Christopher Beach,
Poetics@, edited by Joel
Kuszai, Roof Books,
Anthology of Modern American Poetry, edited by Cary Nelson, Oxford University Press,
The Form of Our Uncertainty: A Tribute to Gil Ott, edited by Kristen Gallagher, Chax &
Handwritten Presses, Buffalo NY & Tucson AZ, 2001
The Best American Poetry 2002, edited by David Lehman and Robert Creeley, Scribners, New York, 2002
Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry, edited by
Todd Swift and Phil Norton,
One Score More: The Second 20 years of Burning Deck, 1981-2001, edited
by Alison Bundy, Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop, Burning Deck Press,
Twentieth- Century Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry, edited by Dana Gioia, Dave Mason and Meg Shoercke, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2004
Fellowship Recipients 2002: The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, edited by Tina Calabro, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Harrisburg, PA, 2004
The Best American Poetry 2004, edited by David Lehman and Lyn Hejinian, Scribners, New York, 2004
The Addison Street Anthology: Berkeley’s Poetry Walk, edited by Robert Hass & Jessica Fisher, Heyday Books, Berkeley, CA, 2004
Poet’s Bookshelf: Contemporary Poets on Books that Shaped their Art, edited by Peter Davis, Barnwood Press, 2005
In the
criminal's cabinet: Anthology of poetry and fiction, edited by Todd Swift &
Val Stevenson, Nthposition,
Poetry and the Year 2000, edited by Leslie Davis, Xurban Press, Westminster, CO, apparently unpublished
Líneas conectadas: nueva poesía de los Estados Unidos, edited by
April Lindner, translation editor Hernan Lara Zavala, Sarabande Books,
POEMS IN PERIODICALS (Partial listing)
1965
Community Libertarian, No. 1, May 1, three poems, no pagination
1966
Avalanche, No. 1,
Avalanche, No. 2,
Kauri, No. 14,
Loveletter, Triple No. 4,5, 6,
Poetry Northwest, Vol. 7, No. 3,
1967
Arts in Society,
Avalanche, No. 3,
Hollow
New, No. 4, September,
Poetry Northwest, Vol. 8, No. 4,
1968
The
Trace, No. 68,
TriQuarterly, No. 12, Spring,
Northwestern University,
Work, No. 5,
1969
Arts in Society, Vol. 6, No. 3, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, two poems, p. 431
Caterpillar 8/9, October,
Gods and Heroes: A Modern American Writer
Looks at the
Occident, Vol. 3, New Series,
Spring/Summer,
Poetry, Vol. 113, No. 4, January,
The South Florida Poetry Journal, Vol. 1, No. 3, five poems, p. 33-5
1970
Occident, Vol. 4, New Series,
Spring/Summer,
Tottel’s, No. 1,
1971
Amphora 6, Headstone Press,
Chicago Review, Vol. 22, No. 4, Spring, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, “Text I,” “Text VII,” pp. 26-28
Occident, Vol. 5, New Series, Fall,
Rain, nos. 1&2,
This 1, Winter,
This 2, Fall, Iowa City, IA and Franconia, NH, 5 untitled poems, no pagination
Tottel’s, No. 6,
Tuatara, No. 5, July, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 8 untitled poems, pp. 1- 4
1972
Baloney Street, No. 3/4,
Diana’s Bimonthly, Vol 1., No. 3,
Diana’s Bimonthly, Vol. 1, No. 4,
August,
Salt Lick, Vol. 2, nos. 1 & 2,
Shelter, February,
Silver,
Third Assembling,
Toothpick, Lisbon and the Orcas Islands,
Tottel’s, No. 8,
Tottel’s, No. 10, San Francisco, CA, untitled poem and “Bohor”, pp. 20-27
1973
Big Deal, No. 1, Spring,
Gum,
No. 9,
L, Vol. 1, No. 2-3, Spring,
Shirt, April,
This 4, Spring,
Toothpick, Lisbon & the Orcas Islands, Andrews/Wiater Issue, Fall, “Allures,” “Song No. 1,” no pagination
1974
Baloney Street, No. 7,
Big Deal, No. 2, Spring,
Fifth Assembling,
Gegenschein Quarterly, No.
7-8, Bowling Green, OH, “from ‘Songs for Bruce Andrews,” “Lips,” “from ‘Ott’,”
no pagination
L, Vol. 1, No. 4-5, Spring,
Occident, Vol. viii, New Series, Spring,
Roy Rogers, Winter,
This 5, Winter,
1975
Alcheringa, New Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Boston University, Boston, MA, “Tri,” pp. 114-116
Big Deal, No. 3, Spring,
Clown War 11,
Telephone, No. 10,
The 13,
This 6, Spring,
1976
A Hundred Posters, No. 8, August,
Bezoar, Vol. 4, No. 2, November,
Bondage & Discipline, Vol. 1, No. 3, Chicago, IL, nine poems, no pagination
Flora Danica, No. 2, September, Ann Arbor, MI, “Ponziani,” “Alekhine,” “The Marquis de la Place,” “The Enormous Tragedy of the Dream in the Peasant’s Bent Shoulders, ” no pagination
Occulist Witnesses, No. 3, Fall,
This 7, Spring,
Tottel’s, No. 16,
1977
Boundary 2, Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter, State University of New York, Binghampton, NY, “from The Chinese Notebook,” pp. 539-551
Hills 4, May,
Miam, No. 3, August,
Roof III,
1978
Abracadabra, No. 3, Luxembourg, “Ponzioni,” no
pagination
Bezoar, Vol. 13, No. 3, Summer,
Epod, No. 2, September,
Las-Bas, No. 10, January-February, College Park, MD, “Turk Street News,” pp. 43-49
Paper Air, Vol. 1, No. 3, Blue
Roof V,
Roof VII,
Tottel’s, No. 17,
Wet, No. 21,
This 9, Winter,
1979
Bezoar, Vol. 15, No. 3, Supplement to the Spring Issue of Winter, April Gloucetser, MA. “a paragraph from Tjanting,” no pagination (entire issue)
Gnome Baker IV,
Interstate, Vol. 3, No. 4, Austin, TX, “Winter Landscape with Skaters and a Bird Trap,” “The Swans,” pp. 24-8, 136-8
Sun & Moon, No. 8, Fall,
Wet, No. 21, November/December,
1980
The Difficulties, Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter,
1981
O.ars, No. 1,
Tamarisk, Vol. III, No. 4, Summer,
This 11, Spring,
1982
Change, No. 41, March,
Sulfur 3, California Institute of
Technology,
Sulfur 4, California Institute of
Technology,
1983
Boxcar, No. 1,
Conjunctions 4,
Hills 9,
Ironwood 20,
So & So, Vol. II, No. 2, Spring, Berkeley, CA, “Skies IV,” no pagination
This 12,
1984
Bluefish, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring,
Pavement, No. 4, Spring,
1985
Abacus, “Ron Silliman issue,”
Carte Segrete, Nuova Serie, N. 1, Rome, Italy, “Porta girevole” (Opening sequence of Ketjak) translated by Franco La Polla, pp. 133-135
The Difficulties: Ron Silliman Issue,
Vol. 2, No. 2,
Fiction International, 15:2,
Five Fingers Review, No. 2,
Moving Letters,
Origin, Fifth Series, No. 6,
Writing 11,
1986
Bulletin A.R.C. Litterature, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, No. 162, “Trace,” (translation of, pp. 659-660, opening section of Tjanting), translated by Philippe Jaworski, pp. 659-660
Caliban, No. 1,
Mandorla: The
Notes,
Sink 1,
Southpaw, Vol. 2, No. 1, Winter,
Sulfur 16,
Temblor, No. 3,
Tramen, No. 5,
Zyzzyva,
1987
B-City, No. 4, Spring,
boundary 2, Vol. XIV, nos. 1 & 2, “Fall 1985/Winter 1986” (sic), SUNY Binghamtom, Binghamtom, NY, “from Paradise,” pp. 13-14
The New American Writing, No. 1,
1988
Archive Newsletter, Archive for New
Poetry, UCSD Library,
Conjunctions 12,
Gendaishi Techo, January,
Generator 2,
O-blék, No. 3, Stockbridge, MA & New York, NY, “from ‘Hidden’,“ pp. 73-78
Temblor 8,
West Coast Review, Vol. 22, No. 1,
Summer “1987” (sic),
1989
Broadway 2,
Chax Press Broadside,
Delo, Vol. XXXV, No. 8,
minnesota review,
O.blek 6, Stockbridge, MA, “from `Toner’,“ pp. 137-142
Screens and Tasted Parallels,
Sulfur 24, Spring, 1989,
Talisman, No. 3, Fall, 1989,
Zyzzyva, Vol. V, No. 1,
1990
Archive for New Poetry Newsletter, No. 46, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, “from ‘Jones’,“ pp. 17-18
Avec, No. 3,
Brief 7, Canyon, CA, “from ‘Jones’,“ no pagination
Edge,
La Pagina, No. 2, February-May, Tenerife, Canary Islands, “from ‘Ketjak,’“ in English with facing Spanish translation by Estaban Pujals Gesali, pp. 132-135
Raddle Moon, No. 9,
Verse, Vol. 7, No. 1, Fife, Scotland, Salford, England, and Williamsburg, VA, “from ‘Toner’,“ pp. 64-65
Writing No. 25,
1991
Blue
Generator 5,
Meanjin, Vol. 50, No. 1, Autumn 1991,
O.ars, No. 8,
Socialist Review, Vol. 91, No. 2,
April-June 1991, “from
Zyzzyva 25, Vol. VII, No. 1, San Francisco, CA, “from ‘Jones’,“ pp. 76-81
1992
Ovdia, No. 286, October, 1992,
Rusky Almanac, No. 2,
Stifled Yawn,
Talisman,
Tyuonyi,
1993