Tentative Index of
On-Line Essays, Reviews and Critical Writing
by Karl Young
- Notation and the Art of Reading.
Young's most important essay, discussing the interrelation of book production and poetry in several cultures as it related to poetry in the U.S. in the early 80s.
Jelölési rendszerek - és az olvasás mûvészete Fordította: Koppány Márton. (Hungarian translation by Márton Koppány)
Texto Español; traduccion: César Espinosa.- The Last Pages of Codex Boturini
Essay on one of the surviving pre-Columbian Mexican manuscripts, with facsimile and translations. As usual, Young tries to piece together the living context of usage for this book, as well as sumarizing scholarship relating to it. [Published in Tezcatlipoca: A Journal of Chicano/a Studies].- Human and Animal Stages in the Aztec Continuum of Life, and The Continuum of Life in Codex Borbonicus
Essays on Aztec World View as a living continuum, focusing on Quetzalcoatl's animal and human aspects, followed by examples and commentary on one of the pre-Columbian Central Mexican iconographic books. [Published in Tezcatlipoca magazine.]- Toward an Ideal Anthology Reflections on the Light and Dust Web Anthology.
- Two Representative Works of the last Decade; A Working Present for Jackson Mac Low on His 75th Birthday
Study of Mac Low's Open Secrets CD and Words nd Ends from Ez, in context of his opus.Names: The Basis of Graffiti Art
- Graffiti International [at Marc Weber's Sugar Mule Magazine]
- The Visual Poetry of bpNichol; a Brief Sketch.
Overview, with copious examples.- Reesom Haile, Prophet of the Global Village
- Review of Beat Thing by David Meltzer. This and the previous entry at Michael Rothenberg's Big Bridge magazine.
- "Reading the Waves, An Introduction to Karl Kempton's Rune: A Survey"
- The Turning Pages of Light and Darkness: d.a.levy's Tibetan Stroboscope
- Three Sets of Robert Grenier's Illuminated Poems
- A Multi-Voiced Memorial for Meridel Le Sueur
by Karl Young, Linda Montano, Pauline Oliveros, Joe Napora, and Barbara Mor.- Introduction to the English Language Edition of Evald Flisar's Tales of Wandering
- Two Approaches to John Taggart's Slow Song for Mark Rothko and Inside Out: essays by Rochelle Ratner and Karl Young from the John Taggart issue of Paper Air magazine.
- People's History - Essays at Freedom Press
This site is in the process of migrating to a new location. URLs seem to shift. There's a scripting device that yields different results at different times. But at least some essays written for Freedom, the press and newspaper set up by Peter Kropotkin 114 years ago, seem to remain available by typing in "Karl Young" in the search field. "Cowboys and Indians - The Dumbing Down of American Myths" and "Disturbing History: The World Wide Web in Context" can usually be found there. . .- The Revenge of Uhura's Mini-Skirt [at Jean Heriot's Kaspahraster]
Reviews:
- Cat Licked the Garlic by Anne Tardos- Spoken Texts by Alison Knowles
- Maximus to Gloucester Charles Olson's Letters to the Glouster Times,
- Myung Mi Kim and Maureen Owen
- Digital Visions by Cynthia Goodman
- Yaqui Deer Dance Songs/Maso Bwikam by Larry Evers & Felipe S. Molina
Introductions and commentery for works at Light and Dust:
- A Homepage Away From Home for bpNichol
Reprints of work by Nichol published in the U.S., with continuation of Nichol's collaborative TTA 29 project.With Ingrid Swanberg:
d.a.levy home pageFREE GRAFZ
Meeting place for graffiti art and visual poetry, with samples and extensive links.International Shadows Project Retrospectives
The International Shadows Project is an ongoing grass roots condemnation of nuclear weapons and the use of nuclear energy through an alliance of arts, particularly mail art and performance. As such it is also an ongoing celebration of life in the face of unmitigated evil, as well as an extensive documentation, with copious examples, of mail and performance art.
From Leaf Mosaic - Autobiographical Essays
A Middle American Water TableChinese Couplets and Dialogues
Vocabularies, Fracals, and Semiconductors
Acoustic Books at the Begining and End of the World
Part 1 of Some Volumes of Poetry: A Retrospective of Publication Work by Karl Young.
Essays and commentary on alternative publishing and culture of the 1970s; cottage industries, learning to print on the job, poetry readings and how to organize them;
books and their authros: comments on Jackson Mac Low, bpNichol, John Taggart, Carol Berge, Nathaniel Tarn, Robert Filliou, Dick Higgins, Dieter Roth, George Brecht, Steve McCaffery, Hilary Ayer, Kathleen Wiegner; Martin J. Rosenblum, John Kingsley Shannon, Toby Olson, Symposiums on Guy Davenport, Michael McClure, Rochelle Owens, Diane Wakoski, Assembling, Clark Coolidge, Theodore Enslin, Tom Phillips, Ian Tyson, and Joe Tilson;
Water Street Arts Center: how to start an arts organization without a cent in capitol or a grant or other financial support -- and one that's now lasted 34 years, and developed into one of the most celebrated organizations of its type in the U.S.