Cadastral Map - Magi, Jill

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Résumé :
Jill Magi's text-image projects document border-crossings between the body and public space, and between ideologies inscribed and experience as it is lived. Her projects combine research with the following forms: poetry, fiction, the essay, drawing, stitching, photography, and collage. She is the author of LABOR(Nightboat Books), SLOT (Ugly Duckling Presse), Cadastral Map (Shearsman), Torchwood (Shearsman), Threads (Futurepoem), as well as the chapbooks Furlough/Die for Love (Ed. Press), Poetry Barn Barn!(2nd Avenue), Cadastral Map (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), Shroud, a collaboration with Jen Hofer, and numerous small, handmade books. Her essays have been anthologized in The Eco-Language Reader (Portable Press/Nightboat Books) and Letters to Poets (Saturnalia Books), and visual works have been exhibited at the Textile Arts Center, the Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, the International Meeting of Visual Poetry, apexart, and Pace University. In 2011 she was artist-in-residence at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, New York, and from 2006-07, she was a writer-in-residence with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She has taught writing, literature, and art with the City University of New York, The New School University, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Goddard College, and Columbia College Chicago. In 2013 she joined the writing faculty at New York University in Abu Dhabi. For her small press work, she was recognized by Poets & Writers Magazine as one of the 50 most inspiring authors in 2010....

Biographie:
Jill Magi's text-image projects document border-crossings between the body and public space, and between ideologies inscribed and experience as it is lived. Her projects combine research with the following forms: poetry, fiction, the essay, drawing, stitching, photography, and collage. She is the author of LABOR(Nightboat Books), SLOT (Ugly Duckling Presse), Cadastral Map (Shearsman), Torchwood (Shearsman), Threads (Futurepoem), as well as the chapbooks Furlough/Die for Love (Ed. Press), Poetry Barn Barn!(2nd Avenue), Cadastral Map (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), Shroud, a collaboration with Jen Hofer, and numerous small, handmade books. Her essays have been anthologized in The Eco-Language Reader (Portable Press/Nightboat Books) and Letters to Poets (Saturnalia Books), and visual works have been exhibited at the Textile Arts Center, the Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, the International Meeting of Visual Poetry, apexart, and Pace University. In 2011 she was artist-in-residence at the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, New York, and from 2006-07, she was a writer-in-residence with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She has taught writing, literature, and art with the City University of New York, The New School University, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Goddard College, and Columbia College Chicago. In 2013 she joined the writing faculty at New York University in Abu Dhabi. For her small press work, she was recognized by Poets & Writers Magazine as one of the 50 most inspiring authors in 2010....

Sommaire:
In Cadastral Map, Jill Magi writes: I enter as a writer, one kind of mapmaker, needing to ask, is traditional nature writing in English a cadastral map? Abstracting, narrowing, taking an especially strong hold in North America, the New World that never was new? Even as 'green is the new black' and environmentalism gains moral momentum, is 'nature writing' still our flawed point of origin, creating ideas of the land and nature that tend to erase people and local knowledge as we go? In answer to these questions, Magi arrives in three states: the New Jersey farmland of her childhood, a Kentucky of deep lyricism and painful inequities, and early 20th century Vermont where progressive policies established an idea of nature, pitting local needs against policies to attract tourists. She enters these questions and sites via poetry-because a policy is a path that is made, an effect to feel....