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Reality Street has published for the first time the complete text (insofar as it can be contained within a set of covers) of Allen Fisher's 1970s project PLACE - including Place Book 1, Becoming, Stane and Unpolished Mirrors.
PLACE was Allen Fisher's now somewhat legendary poetic project of the 1970s. Originally published over several years as a series of interconnecting books, virtually all of them now unobtainable, it incorporated influences from Blake, Olson, Pope, Wordsworth, Robert Kelly, Walter Benjamin, Jung, Dickens, Foucault, Wilhelm Reich, Marxism, the Situationists, conceptual art and researches in mythology, linguistics, psychology, mathematics, immunology, topography, zoology and much else - and yet remains unclassifiable. The new Reality Street edition reprints the complete text of the constituent books - Place Book 1, Becoming, Stane, Eros:Father:Pattern, Unpolished Mirrors - in a handsome 418-page paperback.
Allen Fisher has been involved in performance and poetry since 1962. A poet, painter, publisher, editor and art historian, he is currently Professor of Poetry and Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has exhibited paintings in many shows.
2005, 1-874400-28-8, price: £18, 418pp
Collecting work from 1988-91, this is the fourth book in the series Gravity as a consequence of shape. It has since been incorporated into the collection Gravity, published by Salt Publishing, but is still available separately.
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Allen Fisher
Allen Fisher