Vanessa Place

Vanessa Place is a writer and lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues Press. She is the author of Dies: A Sentence (Les Figues Press), a 50,000-word, one-sentence prose poem; the post-conceptual novel La Medusa (Fiction Collective 2), and, in collaboration with appropriation poet Robert Fitterman, Notes on Conceptualisms (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009). Place is also a regular contributor to X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, and is collaborating with Los Angeles conceptual artist Stephanie Taylor on the film, Murder Squaredance at the Spiral Jetty. Her nonfiction book, The Guilt Project: Rape and Morality will be published by Other Press in 2010. Place is co-founder of Les Figues Press, described by critic Terry Castle as “an elegant vessel for experimental American writing of an extraordinarily assured and ingenious sort.”

 

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www.lesfigues.com/lfp/28/dies-a-sentence
fc2.org/place/medusa/reviews.htm