Brion Gysin sound files at ubuweb

Permutations

Combinatory Poetry and Literature in the Internet

TRAVESTY

Google Poetry Generator

“Peter’s Haiku Generator”

Purpleglitter Poem Generator http://www.purpleglitter.com/cgi-bin/poemgenerator/generate.pl

dbqp: visualizing poetics

Dan Waber, "Argument"

Reiner Strasser, "Alan Sondheim's DAWN"

Jim Andrews, Arteroids

John Cayley, Imposition

Jason Nelson’s “The Poetry Cube”

Internalational Dictionary of Neologism

Romantic Period:

Frederick Burwick. Mimesis and Its Romantic Reflections.
University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. 203p.
see review at http://rmmla.wsu.edu/ereview/56.1/reviews/tayebi.asp

Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period
Tilar J. Mazzeo 2006
Preface and Table of Contents at http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/toc/14287.html

Oulipo

• OuLiPo wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo [read for background, study closely the lipograms and "n+7" method sections; create at least one "n+7" text]
• Raymond Queneau, Cent Mille Milliards de Poèmes (Hundred Thousand Billion Poems): http://www.bevrowe.info/Poems/QueneauRandom.htm [study the poem, make your own sonnet, record impressions]
• Cybership of Fools WWW site http://www.fritss.unimelb.edu.au/espaces/ [explore site; read ALL of the example pages; can you create any of these forms of constrained text? Give it a try! Those of you who know French should try the exercise pages] ]
• Oulipo http://www.growndodo.com/wordplay/oulipo/index.html [read page, and follow the "Dog Sees Ada" and "palindrome" links on this page]
• Harry Mathews, "In Quest of the Oulipo: http://www.lacan.com/frameVIII6.htm
• OULIPO feature at Drunkenboat: http://www.drunkenboat.com/db8/oulipo/feature-oulipo/index.html [read Jean-Jacques Poucel's "Curator's Note", and explore the site and identify other texts you find interesting (explain why); watch Anita Pantin's video "¿Quepasopa Raymond?" if you have time]

DADA

• From Poems for the Millennium: Prologue to Dada 1, 2; Francis Picabia's Portrait of Tristan Tzara (these are also posted to WebCT) [read Prologues for important background; record your impressions of Picabia's "Portrait" in your log].
• Tristan Tzara's "Dadaism" http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jenglish/English104/tzara.html [read for background and spirit]
• "How to make a dada poem" http://www.madsci.org/~lynn/juju/surr/games/dada-poem.html [Please follow instructions and make a few dada poems. Scan and include images in your log]
• Dada Online http://www.peak.org/~dadaist/English/Graphics/index.html [select a painting from dada art and comment]
• International Dada Archive http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/ [contains useful biographies (use to find out more info on the artists, if necessary); in the dada digital library, review some periodicals and pamphlets, then choose one to comment on, placing it in the context of dada techniques]
• Kurt Schwitters "Die Sonate in Urlauten:" score http://www.ubu.com/historical/schwitters/ursonate.html; recording: track 7, http://www.ubu.com/sound/artist_tellus.html [read and listen to the score, and comment]
• Huelsenbeck, Janko, Tzara: "L'amiral Cherche Une Maison à Louer" [see excerpt from score at http://www.ieeff.org/dadafinal.pdf (p. 13), listen via http://www.ubu.com/sound/tzara.html, and comment]
• ArtLex on Dada http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/d/dada.html [review links to read about concepts related to dada]; see (1) Picabia’s dada movement collage; (2) Raoul Hausmann's Mechanical Head [or, The Spirit of Our Time]; and, (3) Marcel Duchamp's Fountain [review at least one of these, if not all three, in your log]
• Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada [more background info]
• dada server http://www.smalltime.com/dada/ [fill in the info, see what happens]

Futurism

• Prologues to Futurism (from Poems for the Millennium): 1 2 3 4 5
• The Futurist Manifesto: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/T4PM/futurist-manifesto.html
• excerpts from F. T. Marinetti, "Zang Tumb Tuuum:" 1 2
• F.T. Marinetti Sound Poetry score: http://www.ubu.com/historical/sound/marinetti_dune.html; listen to track 3, Marinetti's "La Battaglia di Adrianopoli" (1926) http://www.ubu.com/sound/artist_tellus.html (note: this is a different piece than the score)
• Futurism: Manifestoes and other resources: http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/ [select one of the other reviews here and review it; how does it compare to "The Futurist Manifesto"?]
• FUTURISM and the FUTURISTS: http://www.futurism.org.uk/futurism.htm
• The Italian Futurist Book: http://colophon.com/gallery/futurism/
• Russian Futurism: wikipedia entry (read external link, "Slap in the Face of Public Taste"); read the info on this Russian Futurist site [after reading these, describe your impression of the concept of "zaum," and--in your own words--explain the difference between Italiam and Russian Futurism]