Jayme Yen at the Walker Art Center Design Blog pointed me to yet another indespensible wing of Kenneth Goldsmith’s vast cultural archive at Ubu.com, the “Ethnopoetics” section. Its curator Jerome Rothenberg writes, “In the present Ubuweb collection of ethnopoetic openings, it’s our intention to build a sampler of what we take to be the second great breakthrough of the modernist poetry project. The search here is for a range of poetries outside the domain of customarily accepted literature. In particular we’re interested, in the spirit of other segments of Ubuweb, in soundings and visionings that are the traditional and often culturally acceptable counterparts to what in our own surroundings have been seen and heard as radical, even disturbing departures from conventional practice.” All of Rothenberg’s selections are compelling, but I was particularly glad to see his inclusion of Shaker gift drawings and visual poetry in the project. More of my thoughts on the Shakers’ gift drawings here.