sucking on words
conceptual writing - a fusion of art and literature
sucking on words is a documentary film that features interviews with, and extensive performances by, the American poet Kenneth Goldsmith. It also features critical commentary on his intense and ground-breaking conceptualist practice from three of North America’s leading voices on avant-garde poetics. Shot on location in New York in 2007, the lively conversations featured in sucking on words are an ideal introduction to Goldsmith’s witty and provocative works, which are already regarded as hallmarks of 21st-century literature. The film showcases readings from some of his notorious books: No.111 (found phrases ending in the ‘r’ rhyme and filtered alphabetically by syllable count); Soliloquy (a transcription of every word Goldsmith spoke for a week); Day (a retyping of one day’s New York Times newspaper); Traffic (one day’s worth of hourly radio traffic bulletins); and The Weather (one year’s worth of radio weather bulletins).
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4.8/10
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- Released
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- Language
- English
- poetry
Top billed cast
Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR1 Oct 2007
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- When was sucking on words released?
- sucking on words was released on 1 October 2007.
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- sucking on words holds a 4.8/10 audience score from 2 votes.
- Who directed sucking on words?
- sucking on words (2007) was directed by Simon Morris.
- How long is sucking on words?
- sucking on words runs for 59m.












