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Biography
David Wolach has been many things, writer, poet, professor and even an editor for some press companies. Throughout his life, Wolach has written many books such like, Occultations, Prefab Eulogies Vol. 1: Nothings Houses, Acts of Art/Works of Violence and his most recent book, Hospitaolgy. He spends some of his time as a visiting professor helping a workshop in Language and Thinking, held at Bard College. Wolach is also a professor at Evergreen State College, teaching and focusing on text of arts, poetics and new media. As mentioned before, Wolach has been an editor, and is part of the Nonsite Collective and considered to be an important editor of Wheelhouse Magazine & Press, that dedicates itself to poetics, politics, and radical text arts and assists in producing the yearly series PRESS, with collaboration with Evergreen State College. Wolach’s poetry has appeared in various journals, the most recent being, No Tell Motel, XPoetics, Dusie, 5_Trope, The BlueFifth Review, and Little Red Leaves. Nonetheless, Wolach’s work has so inspiring it has been performed at some venues like The Buffalo Poetics Series, Econ Vergence, The American Cybernetics Conference and The Stain of Poetry Series.

Works
David Wolach is a professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington a visiting professor at Bard College. He teaches poetics, text arts, new media, and a workshop in language and thinking. Apart from his academic career, Wolach is a founding editor of Wheelhouse Magazine.

Occultations by David Wolach, published in 2010, is a book of poetry centered around the body and various performances of the body, like writing a poem while being fed pieces of paper with poetry written on them.

Hospitalogy by David Wolach, Published in 2013, is a book of poetry and essays centered around the hospital industrial complex and the surrounding services. Wolach works to depict and highlights issues in the hospital industrial complex rather than prescribing solutions to the problems identified.

Analysis
David Wolach’s poetry follows the standard form of most poetry structures, but from time to time, Wolach also changes the form and structure of his poems, allowing different forms of spacing and breaks, giving the reader time to process what is being said

Living with mitochondrial disease, Wolach writes about hospital visitations, giving the reader a glimpse into their life, yet, also critiquing the medical structure and the attention a person, or body, may receive. Although Wolach’s works can describe a personal experience, it is also possible for it to represent and bring a broader perspective of an experience that can potentially become relatable to readers.

Poetry around the medical subject can deal with both the interior and exterior of the body. It becomes a space that brings ideas for the critiquing of an idea like healthcare, or dealing more with the mind and body for a more general audience as well.

Reviews
One of David Wolach’s books, Occulations, was nominated for the 2011 Washington State Book Award. It has also been featured and reviewed by a few people and press companies, such as Jacket Magazine, Tarpaulin Sky, Philly Sound, Big Other, Daily S-Press and many more.

His more recent book, Hospitaology, has been given a little more in-depth review about the book itself and what it means to some people. Some critiques have said that the book reflects the way the body can rebel, pull and redact between patient to patient while he also performs radical somartics, prodedural anatomic work and queer narrativity.