Vanessa Place

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1961 –

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Who is Vanessa Place?

Vanessa Place is an American writer and criminal appellate attorney. She is the co-director of the Los Angeles-based Les Figues Press, a contributor to X-tra Art Quarterly, and contributing editor for The Iowa Review. Place has also worked as an occasional screenwriter, working on television shows such as Law and Order: SVU and Xena: Warrior Princess with producer Liz Friedman. Place additionally authored The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality, and Law, an analysis of the prosecution of sex offenders.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Language poet Rae Armantrout has remarked that "Vanessa Place is writing terminal poetry."[1] In 2011, Kenneth Goldsmith published Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in a Digital Age, in which he indicated that Place's work is “arguably the most challenging, complex and controversial literature being written today.”[2] Considered one of the leading figures in the Conceptual Writing movement, Place has lectured and performed internationally, including at the Sorbonne in Paris, London's Whitechapel Gallery, and the Andre Bely Centre for Experimental Writing in St. Petersburg. In 2012, Place was the first poet to perform as part of the Whitney Biennial. A content advisory was posted. In 2013, Place had her first solo art exhibition, The Lawyer is Present, at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, where she listened to confidential confessions from volunteers, then performed them for the public. Place has been called a danger to poetry, and at her performances, audience members have booed, catcalled, complained to organizers, and frequently walked out. Literary critic Calvin Bedient referred to Place as "spokesperson for the new cynical avant-garde," while scholar and critic Marjorie Perloff says that "most of all, [Place] will make you THINK."

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Born
May 10, 1961
United States of America
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on July 23, 2013

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