Following the last day of the symposium, Johanna Drucker was kind enough to send us a list of books and notes to her books, thus providing us with new points of entry into her work.
JD: Literary tactics and themes in the books
Works self-referentially about language:
1976: Twenty-six ’76 (found, overheard, narrative, and meta-descriptive commentary all from a trip to Los Angeles; each page is a slice through that time-sequence)
1977: From A to Z (inventory of poetical styles and approaches to composition)
1978: Experience of the Medium (language terms/visual terms defined in a system)
1981: Dolls of the Spirit (focus on prepositions as transformative, images of objects that are transformative)
1983: Tongues: A Parent Language (procedural work from linguistic text)
1983: Just As (challenge of designatory and descriptive language)
1983: Against Fiction (pendant to Just As addressing the conventions of fiction)
1986: Through Light and the Alphabet (typographic fugue on linguistic polyvalence)
1987: Bookscape (impossibility of fit of literary form to contemporary life/landscape)
1989: The Word Made Flesh (graphically scored text about materiality to flatten planes of reference and discourse together)
1989: Sample Dialogue with Emily McVarish (typographic inflection in dialogue)
1993: Deterring Discourse (impossibility of language’s being able to speak the real)
1996: The Current Line (as in, political line, and also, news/reporting)
1997: Prove Before Laying (emergence of figure of language from potential of alphabet/font constraint)
2010: Wittgenstein’s Gallery (actually produced in 1989; editioned in 2010)
2010-12: Stochastic Poetics (figure of poetics emerging within the field of noise culture)
2014: Diagrammatic Writing (semantics of format)
Feminist works about the narrative conventions of women’s lives:
1989-90: History of the/my Wor(l)d (official history reworked and orthodox feminist theory challenged)
1990: Simulant Portrait (ghost written autobiography of a simulant based on genre fiction)
1994: Narratology (the stories according to which we constructed our lives as real/lived)
2002: A Girl’s Life, with Susan Bee (engagement with the “pink” magazines)
2003: Damaged Spring, Druckwerk
2006: Testament of Women (rethinking moral lessons of old testament tales)
2015: Fabulas Feminae, with Susan Bee, profiles of renowned women
Works of compression in figurative/associative prose:
1972: Dark: The Bat Elf (sui generis erotic juvenilia, but filled with figurative language)
1975: As No Storm (figurative, dense prose)
1977: Surprize Party (figurative prose)
1979: Kidz (punk-ish poem piece)
1980: Jane Goes Out with the Scouts (suggestive poetics)
1980: ‘S Crap ‘S Ample (poem portrait)
1993: Otherspace with Brad Freeman (about emergent sentience/perception of “other” worlds)
1994: Three Early Fictions, Potes and Poets Press
1995: Dark Decade
1999: Nova Reperta with Brad Freeman (modernity, vision, and contemporary world)
2000: Emerging Sentience, with Brad Freeman
2000: Night Crawlers on the Web
2007: From Now
2009: ComboMeals
Other
1977: Fragile (selected poems, writings, from 1970-73)
1978: Netherland: How (so) Far (account, poetic line)
1980: Italy (an account, telegraphic)
2000: Quantum
2006: CUBA (account, telegraphic)