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Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003
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Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003

"Bob Perleman in conversation with Marjorie Welish"
Featuring Bob Perelman, Marjorie Welish

HH, University of Pennsylvania | Friday, April 05, 2002; 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Free at Door (Reservation not required)

Organized by Aaron Levy, Jean-Michel Rabaté
Conference on Marjorie Welish Series



Project Website (with 48 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11007/

Bob Perelman has published numerous books of poetry, most recently *Ten to One: Selected Poems* (Wesleyan University Press, 1999) and *The Future of Memory* (1998); two critical books, *The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History* (1996) and *The Trouble With Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky* (1994); and has edited two books of poet’s talks, *Writing/Talks* (1985) and *Hills Talks* (1980). He is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Marjorie Welish, a poet, painter and art critic, has contributed to several volumes on contemporary art, including Writing the Image After Roland Barthes, and Uncontrollable Beauty: Toward a New Aesthetics. Her selected criticism appears in Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 (Cambridge University Press, 1999). She is the author of The Annotated "Here" and Selected Poems (Coffeehouse Press, 2000). She exhibits her paintings frequently in New York.