An addendum:: I am a year and a half away from my A-exam, and I have been compiling a reading list with the exam in mind. If anyone would like to suggest reading, please reply here. Areas of interest include constellations between the following:

+ contemporary poetries, esp. alternative/innovative/experimental/visual
+ visual art, esp. land art, public art, installation, sculpture, painting, graphic design
+ poetics, theory, and criticism re: dissent, aesthetics, globalization, translation, gender and sexuality, discourses of modernity