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BAX 2018
Best American Experimental Writing
Edited Seth Abramson, Jesse Damiani , Myung Mi Kim
Series: Best American Experimental Writing
Sales Date: 2018-07-17
An anthology of dynamic, forward-thinking writing
Best American Experimental Writing 2018, guest-edited by Myung Mi Kim, is the fourth edition of the critically acclaimed anthology series compiling an exciting mix of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and genre-defying work. Featuring a diverse roster of writers and artists culled from both established authors—like Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Don Mee Choi, Mónica de la Torre, Layli Long Soldier, and Simone White—as well as new and unexpected voices, including Clickhole.com, BAX 2018 presents an expansive view of today's experimental and high-energy writing practices. A perfect gift for discerning readers as well as an important classroom tool, Best American Experimental Writing 2018 is a vital addition to the American literary landscape.
Myung Mi Kim—Guest Editor's Introduction
Seth Abramson and Jesse Damiani—Series Editors' Introduction
George Albon—"The No-Limit and Its Discontents," from 3.) Immanence
Rosa Alcalá—Voice Activation
Rachel Allen—Syntax Errors
josé felipe alvergue—[cartograph], and [Eutiquia]
Stine An—Orientation to Lemons, or Patience Is a Seed
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge—from "The Field for Blue Corn"
Tamiko Beyer—De::con::struct
David Brazil—from doctrine of vestiges
Dylan Byron—Reading Hervé Guibert with Édouard Louis in the New York Public Library
Amy Sara Carroll—When School Is a Factory, Where is Ana Mendieta?
Vincent A. Cellucci—Diamonds in Dystopia
Geneva Chao—from A Comprehensive History of Asian America
Don Mee Choi—Suicide Parade
Please! / One Day the Soldiers Discovered
ClickHole—Faith in Humanity Restored! After These Students Were Defrauded Out of Their Life Savings, Donald Trump Helped By Giving Them $25 Million
In the Interest of Full Transparency, Here Are the 7 Emails I Sent to Hillary Clinton About My Sick Horse
Norma Cole—Among Things
Nowhere Power
Ordinary Things
Stephen Collis—Shell Scenarios
R.M. Cooper—Auto[complete]
Julia Drescher—from C.A.M.P.S.
Aja Couchois Duncan—from Nomenclature, Miigaadiwin, a Forked Tongue
Kate Durbin—HOARDERS: Mary
Biswamit Dwibedy—Shale
Saddiq Dzukogi—Remaining answer
Tim Earley—from Linthead Stomp
Tanis Franco—Alternate Reading of Wuthering Heights
Lewis Freedman—from Residual Synonyms for the Name of God
Zaccaria Fulton—from Dramaticules
Kristen Gallagher—from 85% True / Minor Ecologies
Hugo García Manríquez—Mantles of Non-Translation
Susan Gevirtz—Scepter of the Marketplace
Dragnet
Kenneth Goldsmith—from New York: Capital of the 20th Century
Google Inc.—from @seebotschat: conversation.log
Google AI Poetry
Gabriel Gudding—Bed from Government
Marwa Helal—ghost purchase
Paul Legault—As One Put Drunk into the Packet-Boat 2
Michael Leong—from Disorientations
Layli Long Solider—from Whereas
Jill Magi—Budding Small Citations*
C.J. Martin—from "LAND (5/15/13)"
Nicole McCarthy—Chatter
Jonah Mixon-Webster—Black Existentialism No. 8: Ad Nauseum; or Ad Infinitum
Based on Actual Events / The Real Nigga Attempts to Survive the Apocalypse
Saretta Morgan—from [Auto] Index
Erín Moure—Surgery Lessñn [Trepanation]
Soham Patel—to afar from afar
David James Poissant—The Honeymooners
Mg Roberts—Underanimal: An Excerpt from Anemal Uter Meck
Homing
SOMEDAY, WE MAY come to regret this
Martin Rock—from "A Deríve"
Henk Rossouw—from Xamissa
Ian R. Sharp—from "Devotion + Doubt"
Lauren Shufran—I Sing the Body Electric
Isabel Sobral Campos—["If selves are thoughts . . ."]
Joseph Spece—the militant queer goes a-walking
Jonathan Stalling—Ghost in the Darkness
Eleni Stecopoulos—Language and Materiality
Suzanne Stein—from new sutras
Kate Sutherland—According to the Apothecary
Julian Talamantez Brolaski—talking Horse
I had already shuttered an aspect of my vision
Roberto Tejada—Kill Time Objective
Inhabiting the Drift: Michael Tracy: Paintings, Works on Paper, 2008 – 2015
Mónica de la Torre—from The Happy End / All Welcome
Christina Vega-Westhoff—from Suelo Tide Cement
Asiya Wadud—Calais, onward
Alli Warren—Lunchtime with Woodwinds
Alexander Weinstein—Understanding Great Art and the People Who Make It
Simone White—Stingray
Julia Wick—Leo DiCaprio's $11 Million Malibu Beach House and the Soul-Crushing Agony of Being Human
Uljana Wolf—from Tatting
Devon Wootten—from Again, or Sixty-Seven Days
Mina Zohal—Mehan e Ma / Macrorayan, Kabul/ April, 5:00 AM/ notes on return
DIGITAL-ONLY CONTRIBUTIONS
Anonymous—Wanna Put My Tender Heart in a Blender
ClickHole—8 Heartbreaking Photos of Syrian War Refugees, Also, Sorry, We Do Not Know How to Stop This Steel Drum Music from Auto-Playing—6 Convoluted Ways of Thinking About the Orlando Shooting If You'd Prefer Not to Acknowledge It as an Anti-Gay Hate Crime
Microsoft, Inc.—TayTweets
Netflix—Introducing Netflix Vista [Online]
Sara Nyberg—Argutron
Jocelyn Saidenberg—Notebooks on Notebooks
Robert Sikoryak—from Terms and Conditions
Tinder—Tinderbots
MYUNG MI KIM was born in Seoul, Korea. Her books include Under Flag, The Bounty, DURA, Commons, River Antes, and Penury. Kim's work explores issues of dislocation, colonization, immigration, loss of her first language, and the fallout of history. She is the James H. McNulty Chair of English at SUNY Buffalo. SETH ABRAMSON is the author of six poetry collections and is an assistant professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at the University of New Hampshire. JESSE DAMIANI is a former Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing fellow and current editor-at-large of VRScout and a Forbes contributor. He lives in San Francisco.
"Whenever a newspaper succumbs to the clickbait of fake news; whenever a search engine becomes a surrealist troubadour by chance; whenever a witless chatbot strives to rickroll you—these experimental writers, featured here, ensure that you show up for the future of literature on time."
~Christian Bok, author of The Xenotext
"Restive exploration brings together these otherwise beguilingly multifarious works. What does not change is the necessity for change."
~Charles Bernstein, author of Pitch of Poetry