Author

Publication

2015-03-17 - Talonbooks

Language

English

Word Count

60,000 words, Guess

Page Count

240 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2014472869
  • Amazon0889229228

Classifications

  • LCCPR9199.4.A234 U45 2014
  • LCCPR9199.4.A234 U55 2014
  • LCCN7433.4.A326 U55 2014
and 1 more
  • LCCPR9199.4

Description

"Award-winning Nisga'a poet Jordan Abel's second collection of poetry, Un/inhabited, maps the terrain of the public domain to create a layered investigation of the interconnections between language and land. Abel constructed the book's source text by compiling in their entirety ninety-one western novels found on the website Project Gutenberg, an online archive of works whose copyright has expired. Using his word processor's Ctrl+F function, he searched the compilation for words that relate to the political and social aspects of land, territory, and ownership. Each search query represents a study in context (How was this word deployed? What surrounded it? What is left over once that word is removed?) accumulating toward a representation of the public domain as a discoverable and inhabitable body of land. Featuring a text by independent curator Kathleen Ritter - the first piece of scholarship on Abel's work - Un/inhabited reminds us of the power of language as material and invites us to reflect on what is present in the empty space when we see nothing."--

Subjects

Topics

In artC811/.6Artists' booksCowboys in artWestern storiesEnglish literaturePs8601.b437 u55 2014

Other Editions

  • Un/inhabitedPaperbackTalonbooks2015-03-17

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