Adapted from a talk I gave in January 2021 at the graduate student colloquium of the Book History and Print Culture Colloquium (University of Toronto). The colloquium, held online, was called “The Book Out of Order: Structure, Inversion, Dissent.”
Sources
Web version of Robert Grenier’s Sentences (Lasting Concept).
Images of the physical book (Granary Books).
Lyn Hejinian, “The Rejection of Closure” (Poetry Foundation).
Charles Bernstein and Robert Grenier in conversation (PennSound).
Robert Grenier, “On Speech” (Eclipse Archive).
The Art of Compost 