Peer-reviewed and Research Publications
- “The New Commodity: Technicity and Poetic Form,” Humanities, Poetics of Computation Issue (2017)
- “The Alchemy of the Word: Rimbaud and Revolutionary Artifice,” Journal of Poetics Research (Sep 2014)
- “Conceptual Writing: The L.A. Brand,” Area Sneaks (Jan 2014)
- “Terrible Engines: A Speculative Turn in Recent Poetry and Fiction,” Comparative Literary Studies (Apr 2014)
- “Against Desire: Excess, Disgust and the Sign in Electronic Literature,” Electronic Book Review ( Jan 2014)
- “Language as Gameplay: Toward a Vocabulary for Describing Works of Electronic Literature,” Electronic Book Review (Sep 2012)
- “Third Hand Plays: An Introduction to Electronic Literature,” SFMoMA’s Open Space ( Jul-Sep 2011)
- “Comedies of Separation: A Theory of the Ludic Book,” The Journal of Electronic Publishing (Fall 2011)
- “Toward a Poetics for Circulars,” New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts and Theories (MIT, 2009)
- “Privileging Language: The Text in Electronic Writing,” Electronic Book Review (Nov 2005)
- “Remote Parsee: An Alternative Grammar of Asian North American Poetry,” An earlier version of this essay that appeared in The World in Time and Space: Towards a History of Innovative American Poetry in Our Time (Talisman House, 2002). A shortened form appeared in Telling It Slant: Avant-Garde Poetics of the 1990s (University of Alabama Press, 2001).
- “Korean American Poetry,” [text] [magazine layout] Korean Culture (Winter 1997)
- “A Search for Lost Time: Walter K. Lew’s from Aikth/DIKTE for DICTEE (1982),” [text] [magazine layout] Korean Culture (Spring 1994)
Selected Reviews and Short Essays
- “Book of Numbers: Meillassoux on Mallarmé” (on The Number and the Siren: A
Decipherment of Mallarmé’s Coup De Dés by Quentin Meillessoux), Los Angeles Review
of Books (Oct 2013)
- “Object Man: On Llyn Foulkes at the Hammer” (art review), Los Angeles Review of Books
(May 2013)
- “Let’s Get Weird: On Graham Harman’s H.P. Lovecraft” (on Weird Realism: Lovecraft and
Philosophy), Los Angeles Review of Books (Apr 2013). Republished on Salon, April 2013.
- “Hardcore Hits the Coffee Table” (on We Got Power! : Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s
Southern California), Los Angeles Review of Books (Mar 2013)
- “Gaming the System: On the Oulipo” (on Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential
Literature by Daniel Levin Becker), Los Angeles Review of Books (Aug 2012)
- “Thoroughly Modern Elsa” (on Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa Baroness von
Freytag-Loringhoven), Los Angeles Review of Books (Dec 2011)
- “Make It New” (on seven books by young American poets), Boston Review (Sep 2006)
- “Book of Storms” (on New Collected Poems by W.S. Graham), Boston Review (Apr 2005)
- “Streaming Poetry” (on BlipSoak01 by Tan Lin), Boston Review (Oct 2004)
- “Steve McCaffery: Poet and Critic” (on Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics,
Seven Pages Missing: Volume One: Selected Texts 1969-1999 and North of Intention:
Critical Writings 1973-1986, second edition), Rain Taxi (Winter 2002)
- “On Eunoia by Christian Bök,” Boston Review ( Jul 2002)
- “Notes from the Underground” (on Disobedience by Alice Notley), Boston Review (Dec
2002)
- “On Paradise & Method: Poetics and Praxis by Bruce Andrews and Language of Inquiry by
Lyn Hejinian,” Boston Review (Dec 2001)
- “On Comp. by Kevin Davies,” Boston Review ( Jul 2001)
- “Veronica Forrest-Thomson and High Artifice,” Jacket ( Jul 2001). Later reprinted in Salt
14 (Cambridge: Salt Publishing).
- “Ian Hamilton Finlay,” Jacket (1996)
Interviews
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