{
 "declared_absence": "Ars Poetica, wanted — a declared absence: the copyrighted moderns, the Language writers, conceptual writing and the contemporary arts of poetry, with the public-domain arts no copy could be found for",
 "kind": "copyright, and copies not found",
 "rights": "The authors, their estates and first publishers, as named.",
 "works": [
  {
   "class": "Public domain, no copy found",
   "author": "William Carlos Williams",
   "title": "Spring and All",
   "first_publisher": "Contact Publishing Co., Paris",
   "first_published": 1923,
   "opens": "open now (public domain in the United States); wanted: no fetchable copy found this session"
  },
  {
   "class": "Public domain, no copy found",
   "author": "Gertrude Stein",
   "title": "Composition as Explanation",
   "first_publisher": "Hogarth Press, London",
   "first_published": 1926,
   "opens": "open now (public domain in the United States); wanted: no fetchable copy found this session"
  },
  {
   "class": "Public domain, no copy found",
   "author": "André Breton",
   "title": "Manifeste du surréalisme. Poisson soluble",
   "first_publisher": "Éditions du Sagittaire, Kra, Paris",
   "first_published": 1924,
   "opens": "open now (public domain in the United States); wanted: no fetchable copy found this session"
  },
  {
   "class": "Public domain, no copy found",
   "author": "Tristan Tzara",
   "title": "Sept manifestes Dada",
   "first_publisher": "Jean Budry, Paris",
   "first_published": 1924,
   "opens": "open now (public domain in the United States); wanted: no fetchable copy found this session"
  },
  {
   "class": "Public domain, no copy found",
   "author": "Mina Loy",
   "title": "Aphorisms on Futurism, in Camera Work 45",
   "first_publisher": "Alfred Stieglitz, New York",
   "first_published": 1914,
   "opens": "open now (public domain in the United States); wanted: no fetchable copy found this session"
  },
  {
   "class": "Public domain, no copy found",
   "author": "Mário de Andrade",
   "title": "Paulicéa desvairada, with the Prefácio interessantíssimo",
   "first_publisher": "Casa Mayença, São Paulo",
   "first_published": 1922,
   "opens": "open now (public domain in the United States); wanted: no fetchable copy found this session"
  },
  {
   "class": "Public domain, no copy found",
   "author": "Oswald de Andrade",
   "title": "Manifesto Antropófago, in Revista de Antropofagia 1",
   "first_publisher": "São Paulo",
   "first_published": 1928,
   "opens": "open now (public domain in the United States); wanted: no fetchable copy found this session"
  },
  {
   "class": "Public domain, no copy found",
   "author": "Rainer Maria Rilke",
   "title": "Briefe an einen jungen Dichter",
   "first_publisher": "Insel-Verlag, Leipzig",
   "first_published": 1929,
   "opens": "open now (public domain in the United States); wanted: no fetchable copy found this session (the Internet Archive copies are access-restricted)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Public domain, no copy found",
   "author": "西脇順三郎 (Nishiwaki Junzaburō)",
   "title": "超現実主義詩論 (Surrealist Poetics)",
   "first_publisher": "厚生閣書店, Tokyo",
   "first_published": 1929,
   "opens": "open now (public domain in the United States); wanted: no fetchable copy found this session; in copyright in Japan until 2053"
  },
  {
   "class": "Public domain, no copy found",
   "author": "Zeami Motokiyo",
   "title": "風姿花伝 (Fūshikaden), in a public-domain edition",
   "first_publisher": "",
   "first_published": null,
   "opens": "open now (public domain in the United States); wanted: no fetchable copy found this session"
  },
  {
   "class": "Public domain, no copy found",
   "author": "Moses ibn Ezra",
   "title": "Kitāb al-muḥāḍara wa-l-mudhākara; Hebrew tr. B. Halper, Shirat Yisrael",
   "first_publisher": "A. J. Stybel, Leipzig",
   "first_published": 1924,
   "opens": "open now (public domain in the United States); wanted: no fetchable copy found this session"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Pablo Neruda",
   "title": "Arte poética, in Residencia en la tierra (1925–1935)",
   "first_publisher": "Cruz y Raya, Madrid",
   "first_published": 1935,
   "opens": "2031-01-01 in the United States (ninety-five years from first publication abroad)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Paul Valéry",
   "title": "Poésie et pensée abstraite",
   "first_publisher": "Clarendon Press, Oxford",
   "first_published": 1939,
   "opens": "2035-01-01 in the United States (ninety-five years from first publication abroad)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Marina Tsvetaeva",
   "title": "Искусство при свете совести (Art in the Light of Conscience)",
   "first_publisher": "Современные записки, Paris",
   "first_published": 1932,
   "opens": "2028-01-01 in the United States (ninety-five years from first publication abroad)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Ai Qing (艾青)",
   "title": "詩論 (On Poetry)",
   "first_publisher": "Guilin",
   "first_published": 1941,
   "opens": "2037-01-01 in the United States (ninety-five years from first publication abroad)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Wallace Stevens",
   "title": "Of Modern Poetry, in Parts of a World",
   "first_publisher": "Alfred A. Knopf",
   "first_published": 1942,
   "opens": "2038-01-01 if its copyright was renewed (a United States work published before 1964 needed renewal; the renewal is to be checked)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Federico García Lorca",
   "title": "Juego y teoría del duende (lecture of 1933)",
   "first_publisher": "",
   "first_published": 1942,
   "opens": "2038-01-01 in the United States (ninety-five years from first publication abroad); the date of first printing to be checked"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Aimé Césaire",
   "title": "Poésie et connaissance, in Tropiques 12",
   "first_publisher": "Fort-de-France",
   "first_published": 1945,
   "opens": "2041-01-01 in the United States (ninety-five years from first publication abroad)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Raymond Queneau",
   "title": "Exercices de style",
   "first_publisher": "Gallimard",
   "first_published": 1947,
   "opens": "2043-01-01 in the United States (ninety-five years from first publication abroad)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Isidore Isou",
   "title": "Introduction à une nouvelle poésie et à une nouvelle musique",
   "first_publisher": "Gallimard",
   "first_published": 1947,
   "opens": "2043-01-01 in the United States (ninety-five years from first publication abroad)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Charles Olson",
   "title": "Projective Verse, in Poetry New York 3",
   "first_publisher": "New York",
   "first_published": 1950,
   "opens": "2046-01-01 if its copyright was renewed (a United States work published before 1964 needed renewal; the renewal is to be checked)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Gottfried Benn",
   "title": "Probleme der Lyrik",
   "first_publisher": "Limes Verlag, Wiesbaden",
   "first_published": 1951,
   "opens": "2047-01-01 in the United States (ninety-five years from first publication abroad)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Eugen Gomringer",
   "title": "vom vers zur konstellation",
   "first_publisher": "",
   "first_published": 1954,
   "opens": "2050-01-01 in the United States (ninety-five years from first publication abroad); the place of first printing to be checked"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Octavio Paz",
   "title": "El arco y la lira",
   "first_publisher": "Fondo de Cultura Económica, México",
   "first_published": 1956,
   "opens": "2052-01-01 in the United States (ninety-five years from first publication abroad)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Augusto de Campos, Décio Pignatari, Haroldo de Campos",
   "title": "plano-piloto para poesia concreta, in Noigandres 4",
   "first_publisher": "São Paulo",
   "first_published": 1958,
   "opens": "2054-01-01 in the United States (ninety-five years from first publication abroad)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Jorge Luis Borges",
   "title": "Arte poética, in El hacedor",
   "first_publisher": "Emecé, Buenos Aires",
   "first_published": 1960,
   "opens": "2056-01-01 in the United States (ninety-five years from first publication abroad)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Paul Celan",
   "title": "Der Meridian",
   "first_publisher": "S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main",
   "first_published": 1961,
   "opens": "2057-01-01 in the United States (ninety-five years from first publication abroad)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Frank O'Hara",
   "title": "Personism: A Manifesto, in Yugen 7",
   "first_publisher": "Totem Press, New York",
   "first_published": 1961,
   "opens": "2057-01-01 if its copyright was renewed (a United States work published before 1964 needed renewal; the renewal is to be checked)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Nazik al-Malaʾika (نازك الملائكة)",
   "title": "قضايا الشعر المعاصر (Issues of Contemporary Poetry)",
   "first_publisher": "Baghdad",
   "first_published": 1962,
   "opens": "2058-01-01 in the United States (ninety-five years from first publication abroad); the first publisher to be checked"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Denise Levertov",
   "title": "Some Notes on Organic Form, in Poetry 106.6",
   "first_publisher": "Modern Poetry Association, Chicago",
   "first_published": 1965,
   "opens": "2061-01-01"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)",
   "title": "Black Art, in Black Magic: Collected Poetry 1961–1967",
   "first_publisher": "Bobbs-Merrill",
   "first_published": 1969,
   "opens": "2065-01-01"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Robert Duncan",
   "title": "Towards an Open Universe, in Poets on Poetry, ed. Howard Nemerov",
   "first_publisher": "Basic Books",
   "first_published": 1966,
   "opens": "2062-01-01"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Osip Mandelstam",
   "title": "Разговор о Данте (Conversation about Dante; written 1933)",
   "first_publisher": "Искусство, Moscow",
   "first_published": 1967,
   "opens": "2063-01-01 in the United States (ninety-five years from first publication abroad)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Czesław Miłosz",
   "title": "Ars poetica?, in Miasto bez imienia",
   "first_publisher": "Instytut Literacki, Paris",
   "first_published": 1969,
   "opens": "2065-01-01 in the United States (ninety-five years from first publication abroad)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Kim Su-yeong (김수영)",
   "title": "시여, 침을 뱉어라 (Poetry, Spit!)",
   "first_publisher": "Seoul",
   "first_published": 1968,
   "opens": "2064-01-01 in the United States (ninety-five years from first publication abroad)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Adonis (أدونيس)",
   "title": "مقدمة للشعر العربي (Introduction to Arab Poetry)",
   "first_publisher": "Dār al-ʿAwda, Beirut",
   "first_published": 1971,
   "opens": "2067-01-01 in the United States (ninety-five years from first publication abroad)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Adrienne Rich",
   "title": "When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision, in College English 34.1",
   "first_publisher": "NCTE",
   "first_published": 1972,
   "opens": "2068-01-01"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Oulipo",
   "title": "La Littérature potentielle",
   "first_publisher": "Gallimard",
   "first_published": 1973,
   "opens": "2069-01-01 in the United States (ninety-five years from first publication abroad)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Audre Lorde",
   "title": "Poetry Is Not a Luxury, in Chrysalis 3",
   "first_publisher": "Los Angeles",
   "first_published": 1977,
   "opens": "2073-01-01"
  },
  {
   "class": "Modern",
   "author": "Jack Spicer",
   "title": "The Vancouver Lectures (1965), in The House That Jack Built, ed. Peter Gizzi",
   "first_publisher": "Wesleyan University Press",
   "first_published": 1998,
   "opens": "2036-01-01, seventy years after the author's death"
  },
  {
   "class": "Language writing",
   "author": "Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, eds.",
   "title": "The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book",
   "first_publisher": "Southern Illinois University Press",
   "first_published": 1984,
   "opens": "seventy years after the author's death (living author)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Language writing",
   "author": "Lyn Hejinian",
   "title": "The Rejection of Closure, in Poetics Journal 4",
   "first_publisher": "Berkeley",
   "first_published": 1984,
   "opens": "seventy years after the author's death (living author)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Language writing",
   "author": "Susan Howe",
   "title": "My Emily Dickinson",
   "first_publisher": "North Atlantic Books",
   "first_published": 1985,
   "opens": "seventy years after the author's death (living author)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Language writing",
   "author": "Barrett Watten",
   "title": "Total Syntax",
   "first_publisher": "Southern Illinois University Press",
   "first_published": 1985,
   "opens": "seventy years after the author's death (living author)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Language writing",
   "author": "Steve McCaffery",
   "title": "North of Intention: Critical Writings 1973–1986",
   "first_publisher": "Roof Books",
   "first_published": 1986,
   "opens": "seventy years after the author's death (living author)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Language writing",
   "author": "Ron Silliman",
   "title": "The New Sentence",
   "first_publisher": "Roof Books",
   "first_published": 1987,
   "opens": "seventy years after the author's death (living author)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Language writing",
   "author": "Charles Bernstein",
   "title": "Artifice of Absorption, in A Poetics",
   "first_publisher": "Harvard University Press",
   "first_published": 1992,
   "opens": "seventy years after the author's death (living author)"
  },
  {
   "class": "After 1978",
   "author": "Kamau Brathwaite",
   "title": "History of the Voice",
   "first_publisher": "New Beacon Books, London",
   "first_published": 1984,
   "opens": "2091-01-01, seventy years after the author's death"
  },
  {
   "class": "After 1978",
   "author": "Joseph Brodsky",
   "title": "Uncommon Visage (Nobel lecture)",
   "first_publisher": "Nobel Foundation",
   "first_published": 1987,
   "opens": "2067-01-01, seventy years after the author's death"
  },
  {
   "class": "After 1978",
   "author": "Édouard Glissant",
   "title": "Poétique de la Relation",
   "first_publisher": "Gallimard",
   "first_published": 1990,
   "opens": "2082-01-01, seventy years after the author's death"
  },
  {
   "class": "After 1978",
   "author": "Alice Notley",
   "title": "The Poetics of Disobedience",
   "first_publisher": "",
   "first_published": 1998,
   "opens": "seventy years after the author's death (living author)"
  },
  {
   "class": "After 1978",
   "author": "Christian Bök",
   "title": "ʼPataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science",
   "first_publisher": "Northwestern University Press",
   "first_published": 2002,
   "opens": "seventy years after the author's death (living author)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Conceptual writing",
   "author": "Vanessa Place and Robert Fitterman",
   "title": "Notes on Conceptualisms",
   "first_publisher": "Ugly Duckling Presse",
   "first_published": 2009,
   "opens": "seventy years after the author's death (living author)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Conceptual writing",
   "author": "Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith, eds.",
   "title": "Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing",
   "first_publisher": "Northwestern University Press",
   "first_published": 2011,
   "opens": "seventy years after the author's death (living author)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Conceptual writing",
   "author": "Kenneth Goldsmith",
   "title": "Uncreative Writing",
   "first_publisher": "Columbia University Press",
   "first_published": 2011,
   "opens": "seventy years after the author's death (living author)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Contemporary",
   "author": "Mary Ruefle",
   "title": "Madness, Rack, and Honey",
   "first_publisher": "Wave Books",
   "first_published": 2012,
   "opens": "seventy years after the author's death (living author)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Contemporary",
   "author": "Lisa Robertson",
   "title": "Nilling",
   "first_publisher": "BookThug",
   "first_published": 2012,
   "opens": "seventy years after the author's death (living author)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Contemporary",
   "author": "Cathy Park Hong",
   "title": "Delusions of Whiteness in the Avant-Garde, in Lana Turner 7",
   "first_publisher": "",
   "first_published": 2014,
   "opens": "seventy years after the author's death (living author)"
  },
  {
   "class": "Contemporary",
   "author": "Ben Lerner",
   "title": "The Hatred of Poetry",
   "first_publisher": "Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
   "first_published": 2016,
   "opens": "seventy years after the author's death (living author)"
  }
 ],
 "wanted": "Wanted: the public-domain entries first, as scans of their first printings; then the moderns as they open, and permission from living authors and estates for the Language, conceptual and contemporary works, which the library would seat beside their predecessors here.",
 "on_the_shelf": "Beside ars-poetica (29/04), avant-garde-ii (29/05) and telepathic-prose (29/07); the declared absences of Allen Ginsberg (28/03), Anne Carson (28/04), Tao Lin (28/05) and Jack Kerouac (29/01).",
 "note": "This seat holds no text of the works it names. The dates follow the terms stated; they are not legal advice."
}