#james reimer is non-existant to me

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Some have asked me if I read all the books in "A Bibliography of Conceptual Writings" (obvious answer: it's technically impossible). Others have asked me to mention some titles, some examples of this or that; for instance, the critic Alex Ciorogar, who I did forget to credit in the foreword for at least trying to help me, wanted something that really questions the notion of authorship (besides the obvious example of Kenneth Goldsmith's "Day" versus Kent Johnson's satirical appropriation, I also told him about Stephen McLaughlin and Jim Carpenter's "Issue 1", the nearly 4,000-pages PDF with generated poems attributed to almost just as many living and dead poets, some of whom were more than unpleased).

For now, I'm not even trying to give any sort of "canon", if that's desirable or even possible - I did enjoy more doing an inclusive bibliography than trying to make lists of stuff that is "better" (according to what criteria?) than the rest, lists that exclude.

Still... here is a personal "favorites" list (some are books/texts I can't even read (yet), but does it matter?): Amanda Ackerman - The Book of Feral Flora (2015) Sara Adams, 'Think Like a B' (2016) Sacha Archer - Dishwashing Event PART ONE: TIANJIN, CHINA (2016) Kate Armstrong - Path (2012) Oana Avasilichioaei and Erín Moure - Expeditions of a Chimaera (2009) Nanni Balestrini - Tristano Stephanie Barber - Night Moves (2013) Erica Baum - Dog Ear Heimrad Bäcker - seestück (seascape) derek beaulieu - Quercus: "Nations hurled together so they might learn to know one another" (2016) (edited by derek beaulieu/Lori Emerson) - Writing Surfaces: Selected Fiction of John Riddell Guy Bennett - Self-Evident Poems (2011) Caroline Bergvall - Fig (2005) Christian Bök - Crystallography Ida Börjel - Konsumentköplagen: juris lyrik (2008) Angela Bulloch - Rule Book (2000) Mairéad Byrne - SOS Poetry (2007) Martin John Callanan - Letters 2004–2006: Confirmation That You still Exist; I Respect Your Authority; When Will It End; One London (2007) Sophie Calle - Le Carnet d'adresses Theresa Hak Kyung Cha - Dictee (1982) Thomas Claburn - I FEEL BETTER AFTER I TYPE TO YOU Marcus Coates - UR... A Practical Guide to Unconscious Reasoning (2014) Alan Davies - Raw waR (2012) Brian Joseph Davies - The Consumed Guide (2011) Craig Dworkin - The Perverse Library Dan Farrell - The Inkblot Record (2000) Robert Fitterman - No, Wait. Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself. Dora García - All The Stories (2011) Angela Genusa - Simone's Embassy (2015) Madeline Gins - What The President Will  Say And Do!! (1984) Jeff Griffin - Lost And (2013) Lyndl Hall - Latitudes and Longitudes of the Principal Ports, Harbours, Headlands, Etc., in the World Leif Haven - The Joy of Pain (2014) Johannes Heldén & Håkan Jonson - Evolution (2014) James Hoff - Every Second One Hundred Bolts of Lightning Strike the Earth (2014) Ken Hunt - Space Administration Claire Huot/Robert Majzels - 85 (2013) Kevin Killian - Selected Amazon Reviews Sydney S. Kim - Lessons From A Lonely Italian (2012) Joseph Kosuth - Purloined Mark Leach - Nobody's Coming Back to Uranus: A sci-fi reboot of "Traffic," Kenneth Goldsmith's appropriation of New York City radio reports Tan Lin - HEATH. plagiarism/outsource (2009) Madelaine Caritas Longman - Terms and Conditions for Non-Human Visitors Holly Melgard - CATS CAN'T TASTE SUGAR (2014) Feliz Lucia Molina - a Letter to Kim Jong-Il Looking at Things (2012) yedda morrison - darkness Harryette Mullen - Sleeping with the Dictionary (2002) Sawako Nakayasu - Texture Notes (2010) Doug Nufer - Lounge Acts (2013) Simon Patterson - Rex Reason (1994) M. NourbeSe Philip - Zong! Bern Porter - Scandinavian Summer (1961) -anything from Bern Porter, actually Rob Read - O SPAM, POAMS: Selected Daily Treated Spam 2003-2005 Joseph Redwood-Martinez - event statements (2011) Karen Reimer (Eve Rhymer) - Legendary, Lexical, Loquacious Love (1996) Christopher Russell - Pattern Book (2013) Martin Glaz Serup - Marken (The Field) Ara Shirinyan - Your Country Is Great Frank Smith - Guantanamo Société Réaliste - The Best American Book of the 20th Century (2014) Morten Søndergaard - Ordapotek (Wordpharmacy) Daniel Spoerri - Anecdoted Topography of Chance Nick Thurston - Of the subcontract (2013) Alison Turnbull - Spring Snow: A Translation (2002) Nathan Walker - The Invention of Collage Reduced to Material Objects (2013) Gregor Weichbrodt - Dictionary of non-notable Artists (2016)

edit: forgot about Chris Sylvester’s REPUBLIC (1 or 2?...) Joey Yearous-Algozin’s LAZARUS PROJECT (again can’t decide which part of the series to pick) and several other things as well. I deliberately left out Bernadette Mayer (whose Writing Experiments I find more than inspiring), Hannah Weiner, Charles Bernstein, Steve McCaffery, Rosmarie Waldrop, langpo in general I would leave for something else than a list of mostly books I have discovered during the research for the bibliography. same goes with Robert Lax and Aram Saroyan