# 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

The arts of poetry the twenty-ninth seating could not hold, declared beside the ones it holds (ars-poetica, 29/04; avant-garde-ii, 29/05), at the author's direction to 'go further into language poetry and contemporary ars poetica for wanted' (2026-10-28). Most are in copyright and open on the dates given; eleven are open now and wanted because no copy could be fetched this session. The list is a beginning: each entry names what would be seated, and the shelf grows as the works open or the copies are found.

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

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.

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).

This seat holds no text of the works it names. The dates follow the terms stated; they are not legal advice.