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American poet (born 1947)
Peter Inman (writing as P. Inman ) is an
American poet . He was born in 1947 and raised on
Long Island . He graduated from
Georgetown University . Since 1980 he worked at the
Library of Congress , where he was a union activist (i.e.
shop steward , executive officer, union rep and contract negotiator) for Local 2910 of the
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). He described his politics as "class-based &
socialist ". His work appeared in magazines and anthologies including: In the American Tree (edited by
Ron Silliman ) and
From the Other Side of the Century . He lives in Maryland with the poet
Tina Darragh .
[1]
Selected publications
Platin (Sun & Moon, 1979)
Ocker (Tuumba, 1982)
Uneven development (Jimmy's House of Knowledge, 1984)
Think of one (Potes & Poets, 1986)
Red shift (Roof, 1988)
criss cross (Roof, 1994)
Vel (O Books, 1995)
ply (1997)
at. least. (Krupskaya, 1999)
ISBN
1-928650-03-1
amounts. to. (Potes & Poets, 2000)
a different table altogether . (Slought Books, 2003)
e-book subtitled: P. Inman in Conversation with Roger Farr & Aaron Vidaver .
[2]
now /time (Bronze Skull, 2006)
Ad Finitum (if p then q, 2008)
Per Se (Burning Deck, 2012)
Written 1976-2013 (if p then q, 2014)
Audio & CD
Thomas Delio/James Dashow (Capstone Recording 8645, 1997): settings for works by composer
Thomas DeLio
Music Text (Capstone Recording 8645, 1999)
Notes
^ Information for this bio is taken from the "Contributor's Notes" section of In the American Tree . Edited by
Ron Silliman . (
Orono, ME :
National Poetry Foundation , 2nd edition, 2002); p. 600
^ This work is described in part as a "12,000-word conversation (in which) Inman responded to questions on
poetic form ,
commodities and
syntax ,
counter-hegemony and
subjectivation ,
proper names and
neologisms , aesthetics of
negativity , the social life of language,
union and revolutionary politics, speed and capitalist reproduction, and the retention of the theory-practice division".
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