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Kenneth Goldsmith
The Weather
Make Now Press, 2005
120 p.
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0974355429

Poetry. “Kenneth Goldsmith is without doubt the leading conceptual poet of this time. His poetry, which draws from Fluxus, Dada, and conceptual art traditions, is clever and self aware. With now classics such as FIDGET, SOLILOQUY, and DAY (all available from SPD), he has made poetry out of the mundane and when reading his work one is forced to reconsider the stakes and the measurements of aesthetic practice. THE WEATHER, a collection of weather reports, is one more test of poetry. And what is most striking about this book is that it aces the test. There is something wonderfully celebratory and shockingly pleasant and stimulatingly interesting about reading day after day of weather gone by”–Juliana Spahr.

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Sports
Make Now Press (July 29, 2008)
Paperback: 120 pages
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0981596211

Poetry. SPORTS, the last of Kenneth Goldsmith’s American trilogy (THE WEATHER, TRAFFIC, and SPORTS), is a complete radio transcription of the longest nine inning Major League Baseball game on record. As with the rest of the trilogy, Goldsmith’s exact parsing of language is used to articulate an unfolding narrative. Nothing is left out: in SPORTS we hear every utterance and stumble of the announcers as well as each ad broadcast during the game. It is said that in a normal two and a half hour baseball game, approximately eight minutes of action occurs; this game–the New York Yankees vs. the Boston Red Sox from August of 2006–lasts nearly five hours, doubling the language, leaving the broadcasters a seeming eternity to fill with a parade of endless statistics and in-booth repartee. As the narrative grinds on and the hours pass, a claustrophobic sense of despair descends upon the booth. “Tomorrow?” asks one broadcaster. “I think we’re all writing opuses for tomorrow.”