Craig Dworkin

Craig Dworkin is an American poet, critic, editor, and Professor of English at the University of Utah.^[1][2][3] He is the founding senior editor of Eclipse, an online archive of 20th-century small-press writing and 21st-century born-digital publications.^[4][5]

Dworkin received his BA from Stanford University and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.^[2] He was an assistant^[6] and associate professor^[7] at Princeton University from 1998 to 2004 before joining the faculty at the University of Utah, where he is a Professor of English.^[1]

Dworkin has written a number of books of poetry, including Helicography (Punctum Books, 2021),^[8] The Pine-Woods Notebook (Kenning Editions, 2019),^[9] Def (Information as Material, 2018),^[10] Twelve Erroneous Displacements and a Fact (IAM, 2016),^[11] Alkali (Counterpath Press, 2015),^[12] The Crystal Text (After Clark Coolidge) (Compline, 2012),^[13] Motes (Roof Books, 2011),^[14] The Perverse Library (IAM, 2010),^[15] and Strand (Roof, 2005).^[16]

Dworkin is the author of four scholarly monographs: Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality (Chicago, 2020);^[17][18] Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography (Fordham, 2020);^[19] No Medium (MIT, 2013),^[20] in which he discusses works that are "blank, erased, clear, or silent";^[21] and Reading the Illegible (Northwestern, 2003).^[22] Edited collections include Against Expression (co-edited with Kenneth Goldsmith, Northwestern, 2011), in which he coined the term "conceptual writing";^[23] The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound, co-edited with Marjorie Perloff (Chicago, 2009); and The Consequence of Innovation: 21st Century Poetics (Roof, 2008). He has published articles in such diverse journals as October,^[24] Grey Room,^[25] Contemporary Literature,^[26] PMLA,^[27] and Critical Inquiry.^[28]

Dworkin is the founding senior editor of Eclipse, an online archive focusing on digital facsimiles of radical small-press writing from the last quarter of the 20th century.^[4] Dworkin started the archive in 2002 to provide readers and scholars with access to avant-garde works that were no longer available in print from their original publishers; Eclipse later expanded to publish selected new works and born-digital publications in the spirit of those earlier presses.^[29] The archive's name is an homage to Douglas Messerli’s Sun & Moon press.^[29]

Eclipse includes high-resolution scans of every page of its included texts, most from Dworkin's personal collection,^[4] in an attempt to "conserve ... the facture and material specificity of the book or printed document as an object."^[30] Dworkin co-manages the archive with Danny Snelson, assistant professor of English at UCLA.^[31]

• Eclipse Editor
• Eclipse Archive