Editing Language poets (section)

===Books: Poetics and criticism===
*Andrews, Bruce. ''Paradise and Method.'' Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1996.
*Beach, Christopher, ed. ''Artifice and Indeterminacy:  An Anthology of New Poetics.'' Tuscaloosa:  The University of Alabama Press, 1998
*Bernstein, Charles. ''Content's Dream: Essays 1975–1984.'' Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1985
** ''A Poetics.'' Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992
** ''My Way; Speeches and Poems.'' University of Chicago Press, 1999
** ''Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions.'' University of Chicago Press, 2011
** ''Pitch of Poetry.'' University of Chicago Press, 2016.
*Davies, Alan. ''Signage.'' New York: Roof Books, 1987.
*Friedlander, Ben. ''Simulcast: Four Experiments in Criticism.'' Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004.
*Hartley, George. ''Textual Politics and the Language Poets.'' Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
*Hejinian, Lyn. ''The Language of Inquiry.'' Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
*Howe, Susan. ''My Emily Dickinson.'' Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 1988. Rpt, New Directions, 2007.
** ''The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History.'' Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1993.
*Huk, Romana, ed. ''Assembling Alternatives: Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally.'' Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2003.
*Lutzkanova-Vassileva, Albena, "The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry: Reference, Trauma, and History." New York: Bloomsbury, 2013
*McCaffery, Steve. ''North of Intention: Critical Writings 1973–1986.'' New York: Roof Books, 1986.
** ''Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics.'' Evanston: Northwestern UP, 2001.
*Perelman, Bob. ''The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History.'' Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996.
*Piombino, Nick. ''Boundary of Blur.'' New York: Roof Books, 1993
** ''Theoretical Objects.'' [[Green Integer]] Press, 1999.
*[[Stephen Ratcliffe|Ratcliffe, Stephen]]. ''Listening to Reading.'' Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000
*Reinfeld, Linda. ''Language Poetry: Writing as Rescue.'' Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1992.
*Silliman, Ron. ''The New Sentence.'' New York: Roof Books, 1987. An early collection of talks and essays that situates language poetry into contemporary political thought, linguistics, and literary tradition. See esp. section II.
*Scalapino, Leslie. ''How Phenomena Appear to Unfold.'' Elmwood: Potes & Poets, 1989.
** ''Objects in the Terrifying Tense / Longing from Taking Place.'' Roof Books, 1994.
** ''The Public World / Syntactically Impermanence.'' Wesleyan University Press, 1999.
** ''How Phenomena Appear to Unfold.'' Litmus Press, 2011.
*Vickery, Ann. ''Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing.'' Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2000.
*Ward, Geoff. ''Language Poetry and the American Avant-Garde.'' Keele: British Association for American Studies, 1993.
*Watten, Barrett. ''The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics.'' Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2003. See esp. chaps. 2 and 3.
** ''Total Syntax.'' Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984.