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Place earned a Bachelor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, an Master of Fine Arts at Antioch University, and a Juris Doctor at Boston University.
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La Medusa
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La Medusa is a polyphonic novel of post-conceptual consciousness. At the heart of the whole floats Medusa, an androgynous central awareness that anchors the novel throughout. La Medusa is at once the city of Los Angeles, with its snaking freeways and serpentine shifts between reality and illusion, and a brain—a modern mind that is both expansive and penetrating in its obsessions and perceptions. Vanessa Place’s characters—a trucker and his wife, a nine-year-old saxophonist, an ice cream vendor, a sex worker, and a corpse, among others—are borderless selves in a borderless city, a city impossible to contain. Her expert ventriloquism and explosive imagination anchor this epic narrative in language that is fierce and vibrant, a penetrating a cross-section of contemporary Los Angeles and a cross-section of the modern mind.
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Dies: A Sentence (Trenchart: The Material)
(Fiction. Poetry. Introduction by Susan McCabe. DIES: A SE...)
Fiction. Poetry. Introduction by Susan McCabe. DIES: A SENTENCE by Vanessa Place is a 117-page, one-sentence novel about the coils of language and war, unspooled in the dying breath of a pre- and post-scient World War I soldier. John Witte of the Northwest Review calls DIES, "a marvel of sustained synergy," author Jim Krusoe describes the book as "dizzyingly complex, compound, and full of miraculous side trips as well," and novelist Doug Nufer heralds DIES as a "delightful tour de force of a hopelessly grim predicament." Place obliterates the line between victim and perpetrator, subject and object, rendering this human truth: in the death sentence of life, there is still beauty. "Roll over, dear Whitman," says Susan McCabe in her Introduction, "Here's our new original."
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Vanessa Place
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She is the co-director of the Los Angeles-based Les Figues Press. Place has also worked as an occasional screenwriter on television shows such as Law and Order: SVU and Xena: Warrior Princess with producer Liz Friedman. Place is associated with the Conceptual Art movement and has lectured and performed at events including at the Sorbonne in Paris, London"s Whitechapel Gallery, and the Andre Bely Centre for Experimental Writing in Saint St. Petersburg.
In 2012, Place performed as part of the Whitney Biennial.
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 and then performed them for the public. Place is Chief Executive Officer of VanessaPlace Incorporated., a poetry corporation, referred to as "a transport-national entity whose sole mission is to design and manufacture objects to meet the poetic needs of the human heart, face, and form." Its motto is "Poetry is a Kind of Money."
Place has received criticism for her Twitter account, on which she is retyping text from the 1936 novel Gone with the Wind.
The account"s page includes a stereotypical African American mammy image as its banner. A film still of Hattie McDaniel as the character Mammy in the film version of the book is also used as the account"s profile picture.
Though some have argued that the account is meant to scrutinize stereotyping and racism in Gone With the Wind, many have accused it of being racist and petitioned for Place"s removal from the 2016 Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference committee on these grounds.
On May 18, 2015, the AWP announced that Place had been removed from the committee.
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La Medusa
( La Medusa is a polyphonic novel of post-conceptual cons...)
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Dies: A Sentence (Trenchart: The Material)
(Fiction. Poetry. Introduction by Susan McCabe. DIES: A SE...)
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La Medusa
