Amaranth Borsuk – författare

A wide-ranging anthology of experimental writing—prose, poetry, and hybrid—from its most significant practitioners and innovators  A variety of names have been used to describe fiction, poetry, and hybrid writing that explore new forms and challenges mainstream traditions. Those phrases include experimental, conceptual, avant-garde, hybrid, surfiction, fusion, radical, slip-stream, avant-pop, postmodern, self-conscious, innovative, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E writing, alternative, and anti- or new literature. Conceptualisms: The Anthology of Prose, Poetry, Visual, Found, E- & Hybrid Writing as Contemporary Art is the first major anthology of writing that offers readers an overview of this other tradition as it lives in the early decades of the 21st century.Featuring over 100 pieces from more than 90 authors, this anthology offers a plethora of aesthetics and approaches to a wide variety subjects. Editor Steve Tomasula has gathered poems, prose, and hybrid pieces that all challenge our understanding of what literature means. Intended as a collection of the most exciting and bold literary work being made today, Tomasula has put a spotlight on the many possibilities available to writers and readers wishing for a glimpse of literature’s future.Readers will recognize authors who have shaped contemporary writing, as among them Lydia Davis, Charles Bernstein, Jonathan Safran Foer, Shelley Jackson, Nathaniel Mackey, David Foster Wallace, and Claudia Rankine. Even seasoned readers will find authors, and responses to the canon, not yet encountered. Conceptualisms is a book of ideas for writers, teachers and scholars, as well as readers who wonder how many ways literature can live.The text features headnotes to chapters on themes such as sound writing, electronic literature, found text, and other forms, offering accessible introductions for readers new to this work. An online companion presents statements about the work and biographies of the authors in addition to audio, video, and electronic writing that can’t be presented in print. Visit www.conceptualisms.info to read more.

In April 2018, Amaranth Borsuk began to approach artists, bookbinders, publishers, librarians, and scholars to inquire What is the/a book? This volume documents the responses and decenters the author’s voice to draw attention to the many other formulations of what the book is and can be.

Algún cínico podrá decir que los libros son meras "láminas de árboles recubiertos con una vaca muerta". Nada de eso. A lo largo del tiempo el libro ha representado conocimiento, libertad, fantasía, revoluciones y esperanza. Recorrer su historia, tanto para el investigador como para el público general, permite observar sus desarrollos, mutaciones y experimentos. ¿Qué es? ¿Cómo cambió? ¿Qué significa? Agitada por estas preguntas, la poeta e investigadora estadounidense Amaranth Borsuk parte desde los códices y llega hasta los ebooks y las experiencias más radicales en libros de artista para analizar los sentidos de sus variaciones con el fin de imaginar un futuro posible de este dispositivo. No se trata simplemente de una breve introducción al tema. Es mucho más. Al trazar las interrelaciones del libro como objeto, idea, interface y concepto, Borsuk no solo logra tender diálogos entre la historia, las artes y la literatura electrónica sino proponer un nuevo marco teórico construido desde el siglo xxi para expandir, de un modo sugerente, su definición.