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 a different table altogether (2003-06-01)
Author: P.Inman, Aaron Vidaver, Roger Farr
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Lineage A Series
Edited by Aaron Vidaver, Roger Farr
Published by Slought Foundation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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" 'a different table altogether' : P. Inman in Conversation with Roger Farr & Aaron Vidaver" is the fourth in Thuja Books' Documents in Poetics series and is hosted and distributed by Slought Foundation as part of the "Lineage A" series. The conversation expanded in parallel to Studies in Practical Negation, a study group and talk series at the Kootenay School of Writing in Vancouver, between July 2001 and May 2002. In the 12,000-word conversation Inman responds to questions on poetic form, commodities and syntax, counter-hegemony and subjectivation, proper names and neologisms, aesthetics of negativity, the social life of language, union and revolutionary politics, speed and capitalist reproduction, and the retention of the theory-practice division.
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P. Inman was born in 1947 & raised on Long Island. He graduated from Georgetown University a year after Bill Clinton. Since 1980 he has worked at the Library of Congress, where he has been active as a union rep & negotiator for Local 2910 of the American Federation of
State, County and Municipal Employees. His books include:
Platin (1979), Ocker (1982), Uneven Development (1984), Think of One (1986), Red Shift (1988), criss cross (1993), Vel (1995), ply (1997), at. least. (1999), and amounts. to. (2000). His poems appear in anthologies in three different languages.
Aaron Vidaver edits Documents in Poetics for Thuja Books. He coordinates readings-and-talks series, panels, and study groups in and around Vancouver with the Friends of Runcible Mountain, Kootenay School of Writing, and Pacific Association for Language and Literacy Studies. He is currently preparing a special issue of West Coast Line on the Woodwards Squat and, with derek beaulieu, editing the proceedings of the 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference. His book Collected Evaluations (1975-1995) is part of an ongoing project called Counter-Interpellation. Recent poetry from his book Unentitled appears in dANDelion (2002) and Anarcho-Modernism: Toward a New Critical Theory (2001).
Roger Farr lives in "Vancouver, BC." His erasure-poem Ventilation Flow was published by Thuja in 1999. Other book-objects include System to Pointing (Pulley Press 2000), which is bound in glass, and album, an electronic book composed in collaboration with visual artist Tessa Lamb (Artspeak 2001). Recent critical work has been presented at the Kootenay School of Writing, the Burnaby Art Gallery, and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Other work appears in Aufgabe, Ecopoetics, r/oute, Tinfish, W, and West Coast Line. He teaches critical and creative writing at Capilano College and is a co-director of the Pacific Association for Language and Literacy.
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