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Kenneth Goldsmith — Original Outtake From '73 Poems
Kenneth Goldsmith

Original Outtake From '73 Poems

"Original Outtake From '73 Poems'" is a work by Kenneth Goldsmith, the renowned conceptual poet and founder of UbuWeb, known for his practice of "uncreative writing" that challenges traditional notions of authorship and originality. The piece exists as an outtake — a discarded or excluded fragment — from his larger project *73 Poems*, suggesting a meditation on selection, rejection, and the arbitrary boundaries that define a finished work. In characteristic Goldsmith fashion, the work interrogates what it means for language to be deemed worthy of inclusion or expendable.

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Kenneth Goldsmith, Original Outtake From '73 Poems

"Original Outtake From '73 Poems'" is a work by Kenneth Goldsmith, the renowned conceptual poet and founder of UbuWeb, known for his practice of "uncreative writing" that challenges traditional notions of authorship and originality. The piece exists as an outtake — a discarded or excluded fragment — from his larger project *73 Poems*, suggesting a meditation on selection, rejection, and the arbitrary boundaries that define a finished work. In characteristic Goldsmith fashion, the work interrogates what it means for language to be deemed worthy of inclusion or expendable.

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Text-Based Work, Poetry, Minimalist, Male Artist, Intellectual Mood, Conceptual Art, Avant-Garde, Contemporary Artist, Appropriation Art, American Artist, Avant-Garde Movement, Contemporary Era, Experimental Poetry, Monochromatic, Monochromatic Palette, Archival Document, Experimental Literature, Text-Based Art

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