| Other author/creator | Ritter, Kathleen, 1974- contributor. |
| Included Work | Container of (work): Ritter, Kathleen, 1974- Ctrl+F: Reterritorializing the Canon. |
| Included Work | Stefanucci, Tracy, writer of afterword. |
| Included Work | Willard, Tania, designer. |
| Variant title |
Uninhabited |
| Contents |
Pioneering -- Cartography -- Extracted. |
| Abstract |
"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."-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Poems. |
| General note | "The first edition ... was co-published by Project Space and Talonbooks on the occasion of the 2014 Vancouver Art/Book Fair. This second edition is published by Talonbooks"--Colophon. |
| General note | Includes an essay by Kathryn Ritter and an afterword by Tracy Stefanucci. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Entirely indexed by |
Indexed in the Native American Artists Resource Collection Online, Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, at the artist name level (July 31, 2023) https://5019.sydneyplus.com/Heard_Museum_ArgusNET_Final/Portal.aspx |
| Genre/form | visual poetry. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Poems. |
| Genre/form | Visual poetry. |
| Genre/form | Poésie visuelle. |
| LCCN | 2020445624 |
| ISBN | 9781772012682 (softcover) |
| ISBN | 1772012688 (softcover) |
