What I'm doing in writing has been thoroughly and exhaustively explored in other fields like visual art, music, and cinema, yet somehow it's never really been tested on the page.
Kenneth GoldsmithPoets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.
Kenneth GoldsmithAn updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination.
Kenneth GoldsmithIt's hard to be understood when addressing many people at once. How can you ever know if you're being understood? So, I've just started being intelligently provocative. And people take the bait.
Kenneth GoldsmithThe best thing about conceptual poetry is that it doesnโt need to be read. You donโt have to read it. As a matter of fact, you can write books, and you donโt even have to read them. My books, for example, are unreadable. All you need to know is the concept behind them. Hereโs every word I spoke for a week. Hereโs a yearโs worth of weather reports... and without ever having to read these things, you understand them.
Kenneth Goldsmith