User:Ejp7358/Maps by Craig Dworkin

Maps  is a piece of uncreative post-digital literature written by Craig Dworkin. Uncreative writing is, in its purest form, taking something thats public and turning it into literature. For example, a book of tweets from one person, a book of comments on something online, or a book of song titles from a radio.

About the Author
Born in Bloomington, Indiana in 1969, Dworkin led a modest childhood. He later graduated from Stanford University for his B.A. and University of California Berkeley for his Ph.D. Dworkin is a poet, critic, editor, and currently a professor at the University of Utah. His major works Reading the Illegible and No Medium are most well known and have created the name he has made for himself. Also notable from Dworkin is his work called Fact, which is a poem that presents the chemical compounds of ink on paper. Dworkin has 5 books: Motes (2011), The Perverse Library (2010),Parse (2008), Strand (2004), and Dure (2004). He has edited five volumes, including Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (2011) with Kenneth Goldsmith, The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound(2009) with Marjorie Perloff, and The Consequence of Innovation: 21st Century Poetics (2008); he is also the author of a critical study, Reading the Illegible (2003), and has published articles in such diverse journals as October, Grey Room, Contemporary Literature, and College English. He runs Eclipse, an online archive of radical small-press writing from the last quarter century.

The Work
The piece of uncreative writing is 4 pages long and consists of of the titles of the e-mails from Dworkin's trash folder from a certain week.The titles is not random, and hides the secret to the poem. Maps is "spam" spelled backwards, hiding the theme of the poem right in the title. The titles are separated by dots, • such as this. The titles are random and are of various topics to avoid being filtered out. Dworkin is experienced in uncreative writing as seen earlier by his many publications. The writing appears in Publishing the Unpublishable from ubu publications, edited by Kenneth Goldsmith.

Other Notable Works
In Dworkin's No Medium, he discusses works that are blank, erased, clear, or silent and shows how these works point to new understandings of media and artistic limits. In Reading the Illegible, Dworkin takes previously published works and rearranges the words to render the work illegible.Fact was also very well received well by critics. Fact presents the reader with the irony of seeing the chemicals that ink is made of with ink, making the work enjoyable while also clever and whimsical.