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David Wolach is an experimental poet, blogger, writer, performance artist, and visual artist.

Early Years

Wolach did his graduate work in philosophy at Columbia University. After receiving his degrees he served as a union organizer in New York City for six years.

Career

He is currently a professor of writing, poetics, & philosophy at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and visiting poet in Bard College's Workshop in Language & Thinking. Much of his work is multi-media and performative, and has been featured at venues such as Buffalo Poetics Series 2009, The American Cybernetics Conference 2009, the Belladona New Books/New Releases Series 2010 and Bard's Visiting Poets Series. David is the editor of Wheelhouse Magazine & Press and curator of PRESS: A Cross-Cultural Literary Conference.

Works

Books


 * Occultations (Black Radish Books, 2010)


 * Prefab Eulogies (BlazeVOX, 2010)

Chapbooks


 * Hospitalogy, Vol. 1 (Scantily Clad Press, forth. 2010)
 * book alter(ed) (Ungovernable Press, 2009)
 * Fractions of M (Trainwreck Press, 2008)
 * The Transcendental Insect Reader (Stormy Petrel, 2008)

Selected Essays


 * "On Laura Elrick's Stalk and the Poetics of Spatial Practice" (Jacket 40)


 * "The Carribbean in Exile: Lourdes Vasquez" (Sibila: Poesia e Cultura)


 * "Wittgenstein and the Sorites Paradox" (Sorites: Journal of Philosophy)


 * "Notes on the Econvergence Conferenence", with Elizabeth Williamson (Nonsite Collective)


 * "A Place for Political Theater in the Academic Environment" (Counterpoint Journal)

Selected poetry

has appeared in:


 * Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability


 * Poets for Living Waters


 * No Tell Motel


 * ekleksographia


 * little red leaves


 * Night Train


 * diode


 * The Concelebratory Shoehorn Review


 * Venereal Kittens


 * AB OVO


 * Ignavia Press


 * Fuselit


 * Admit 2


 * Ghoti


 * PRESS 1


 * Elimae


 * The Delinquent

Blogs


 * http://davidwolach.blogspot.com/


 * http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2929974.David_Wolach/blog


 * http://blogs.evergreen.edu/wolachd/


 * http://www.nonsitecollective.org/blog/163


 * http://www.blogger.com/profile/14225159977601462794


 * http://cw.emuenglish.org/?tag=david-wolach

Occultations

Directly concerned with text as body, poetry is physical, and the form itself reinforces this idea.* The distraction zone staging heightens the creative experimentation in Wolach’s writing. His work is concerned with the lived condition of the “body-in-crisis” rather than the analogy of the body.** David Wolach says: “Occultations began, as have my other books, with a set of corporeal rituals or live enactments of language in public places—as working out of problems, concerns, anxieties, and so forth, without knowing where precisely such enactments would take me… Each section of the book, though, was vaguely-conceived as an interlocking set of publically enacted concerns about the body (as "mortal we" to quote Laura Elrick) in relation to the disappearing commons, its replacement with increasing corporatization, information mediation, and militarization of our lived spaces, the intimate, the inter-personal, the possible viz. "what the body (poem) can do."”*** From a Review by Matthew Landis: “David Wolach’s new book, Occultations, attempts to provide a record for the decay of two bodies: the social body and his own.” ****

David Wolach and the Body

David Wolach’s concern with the body is that of what it is as a political body. How that political body relates to the body itself, and the body of the poem. This is seen greatly in his book Occultations. His concern is with what we can see and what we can’t see. What can be brought out if we are distracted enough, as if more truth comes from the distractions than from our act that is put on in the social arena of culture. ***

http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v4n3/nash-review.html* http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780982573129/occultations.aspx ** http://phillysound.blogspot.com/2010_08_01_archive.html *** http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-wolach-rb-landis.shtml ****