In this Book
- Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking: [AIRPORT NOVEL MUSICAL POEM PAINTING FILM PHOTO HALLUCINATION LANDSCAPE]
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry Program
Winner of the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry (2012)
How do we read a book as an object in a network, in a post-book, post-reading, meta-data environment? Seven Controlled Vocabularies models a generic book, a kind of field guide to the arts, wherein distinctions between various aesthetic disciplines are relaxed or dissolved and where avant-garde notions of difficulty are replaced with more relaxing and ambient formats such as yoga, disco, and meditation. Each of the book's seven sections is devoted to a particular art form—film, photography, painting, the novel, architecture, music, and theory—and includes both text and found photographs as it explores the idea of what it means to be a book in an era when reading is disappearing into a diverse array of cultural products, media formats, and aesthetic practices. Seven Controlled Vocabularies will be available in a variety of print and electronic book delivery systems and formats.
Hardcover is un-jacketed.
Table of Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- p. 9
- EDITORIAL NOTE
- p. 10
- A Field Guide to American Painting
- pp. 13-41
- PREFACE to a DEPT STORE
- pp. 72-73
- BOOKS That Function As BUILDINGS
- pp. 78-79
- MOLD /**#@
- p. 84
- SNOOZE SET
- pp. 90-91
- HALLUCINATION
- pp. 96-97
- 2 Identical Novels
- pp. 99-119
- TAG PUDDING =o(o x oo)
- p. 105
- (page 259)
- pp. 114-115
- A Dictionary of Systems Theory
- pp. 121-145
- BAR CODE Buildings
- p. 126
- LOOSELY TYPED LANGUAGE
- p. 127
- MORE / LESS
- p. 137
- SUGAR COOKIE OC 94
- p. 138
- PREFACE (1978)
- p. 139
- SECOND PREFACE (1986)
- p. 140
- THIRD PREFACE (1998)
- pp. 141-142
- FOURTH PREFACE 2000
- p. 143
- Various Library Standards
- pp. 147-168
- DEDICATION to A WIFE:
- p. 148
- FOUCAULT EPIGRAPH
- p. 149
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- p. 161
- SEVENTH PREFACE 2003
- p. 162
- EIGHTH PREFACE 2004
- p. 164
- PERMISSIONS
- p. 165
- DIRECT SALES
- p. 167
- 10 formats for
- p. 168
- A Field Guide to American Cinema
- Some said going out
- pp. 176-177
- which resembles
- pp. 178-179
- had not fallen in love
- pp. 180-181
- who said they were...
- pp. 182-184
- or fucking him twice...
- pp. 185-186
- They counted 1–10
- pp. 188-189
- They were sewing firing
- pp. 190-191
- PART II
- looking kissing voting
- p. 194
- they had something
- p. 195
- It was 1969. They owned.
- p. 196
- It was summer
- p. 197
- that summer
- p. 198
- Some said moving the car
- p. 201
- 2 mins 56 secs
- p. 203
- someone’s ____________
- p. 205
- Some of them
- p. 209
- Poetry Reading
- p. 210
- L: Cinema should
- p. 212
- R: A book should
- p. 213
- 2348-456-98000
- p. 215
- ABOUT the AUTHOR
- p. 220