Fantasies in Permeable Structures

Laura Elrick

Poetry

Factory School. 2005. 76 pages, perfect bound, 6.5x9.

ISBN: 1-60001-041-5

Description: This book takes the idea that history is not linear as its starting point. Can "outmoded" discursive forms do more than appear as the junkyard backdrop for the imperatives of capitalist cultural production? What speaks through what is already there? If we can think of the present as the future of its past, is it possible to re-spatialize the present from behind the bulwark of postmodernist procedures?

Heretical Texts

Laura Elrick is also the author of sKincerity (Krupskaya, 2003) and is one of the featured writers on Women In the Avant Garde, an audio CD produced by Narrow House Recordings in 2004. Excerpts from the scores of a performance (created with detourned language from Fantasies in Permeable Structures) was published by Belladonna* in 2006. Currently poetry co-editor of the free monthly Boog City, and a member of the 2007 Future Poem editorial board, Elrick lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Jill Magi reviews Fantasies in Permeable Structures (Jacket 29, April 2006)

Fantasies in Permeable Structures in the classroom:
     "Culture 'After the Nation' and After" [link: summer 2006]

Laura Elrick reads on Tangent Radio