Description:
Conceptualisms: The Anthology of Prose, Poetry, Visual, Found, E- & Hybrid Writing as Contemporary Art, edited by Steve Tomasula, is a groundbreaking collection that redefines what literature can be in the 21st century. Bringing together more than 100 works by over 90 innovative writers, the volume spans prose, poetry, digital texts, visual writing, and hybrid forms that challenge conventional storytelling and expand the boundaries of literary art. From language-driven experimentation and sound-based composition to collage, appropriation, and electronic literature, these works foreground the very materials and processes of writing itself. With guiding introductions to themes such as digital media, visual form, and "found" text, Conceptualisms offers readers, students, and scholars an illuminating entry into a vibrant and evolving tradition--one that asks not only how literature is written, but what literature can become.
Review Quotes:
"In a time of media multiplicity, we may feel like we've had enough of printed books, marble busts, landscape paintings and other windows on the world. Our writing has become multivalenced and our reading is more textured now that we've gotten used to texting. Writing both with and against the machine, we situate ourselves conceptually all the time. Steve Tomasula's anthology is the first book to demonstrate the material and aesthetic range that digital media bring to literary reading and writing. Conceptualisms stands as a codex for our times. Read it through, from start to finish, and you will come away with a sense of what literature has become and where the best literary writing can now be found." --Joseph Tabbi, University of Bergen, Norway and editor, ebr (www.electronicbookreview.com)