Kenneth Goldsmith



Stretches of Time: Boring Poetry Between Jackson Mac Low and Kenneth Goldsmith

‘I am the most boring writer that has ever lived’. This the opening to the short essay, ‘Being Boring’, by the conceptual writer Kenneth Goldsmith.

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Secretary of Smash the State

Some influential, provocative articulations of position made by American US poet Kenneth Goldsmith are through redefinitions of the type of work that poetry is, and the type of work a poet does. Goldsmith’s critical writing continues to attract controversy in Canada and the USA, partly by how his re-figuration of the idiomatic labour of the poet challenges the discourse of craft. Rather than a specialised virtuous labourer or artisan, Goldsmith’s poetic worker is a hybrid of wage slave and outlaw.

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