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Paperback, 176 pages. \u003cspan\u003e8\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"x\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e6\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"x\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e0.4102\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom the press\u003c\/em\u003e: edited by Dorothea Lasky\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewith Ariel Goldberg, Ken Chen, Wayne Koestenbaum, Tracie Morris, Anaïs Duplan, Raquel Salas Rivera, Brandon Shimoda, Cecilia Vicuña, Fred Moten, and Mónica de la Torre\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoetry as both a form and genre has many possibilities to exist within; however, poetry too often is burdened by the imperative to have an argument and a set of imagery and meanings that are preconceived and placed within the poem. In this way, poetry gets conflated with writing a thesis or project, and the poet simply the presenter of perfectly argued language. When poets attempt to bridge the gap between genres and write within the contemporary essay form, they are tasked to construct perfect arguments there as well and avoid the associative and aesthetic logic that makes poems important. The term essay itself was coined by Michel de Montaigne in the 1500s — it comes from the French word \u003cem\u003eessai\u003c\/em\u003e, which means to test or experiment with what one knows as a learning tool, and is in partial opposition to the terms we use to discuss the essay now\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eESSAYS\u003c\/em\u003e calls on thinkers and writers to move beyond this linear thinking into the realm of what an essay by someone like Montaigne might do. His essays do as they say they will—they test out ideas, they are unafraid to get messy in their execution, they are brave enough to go forward into the uncharted waters. 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While providing very personal, human perspectives on what it feels like to perform in visual arts spaces, Being Work asks its audience how a performer’s labor is perceived and valued in these spaces, and what new possibilities might unfurl within the, at times fraught, coexistence of the two mediums.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors include: Mireya Lucio writing on being the work of Marina Abramović, Casey Brown on Maria Hassabi, Jessica Emmanuel on Xu Zhen, Kestrel Leah on Julien Previéux, Allie Hankins on Gordon Hall, effie bowen on Narcissister, Paul Hamilton on Bruce Nauman and Dorothy Dubrule on Tino Sehgal. Book cover design by Gil Omry-Barel. 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