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Vito Acconci's extraordinary career—poetry, art, architecture: a sort of triathlon of the arts—began in the Bronx, where as an aspiring author of seven years he wrote stories about cowboys and athletes. At his Catholic college, he published sexy stuff about priests and nuns that got the school magazine banned for three issues running. He went on to write fiction in the Iowa Writers' Workshop. But when he came back to New York in the early '60s, something changed, and he began writing poems. Highly conceptual constructions, they did not tell stories, express feelings, or evoke a fictional world. They were not representational. Maybe you could call them presentational: this is a word, this is a sentence, you are reading.

Shelley Jackson

Shelley Jackson

Shelley Jackson

Born: 1963 (age 60)

Bio: Shelley Jackson is a writer and artist known for her cross-genre experiments, including her groundbreaking work of hyperfiction, Patchwork Girl. Her first novel was published in 2006, Half Life.

Known for:

The Melancholy of Anatomy: Stories (2002)
Half Life (2006)
The old woman and the wave (1998)
Sophia, the alchemist's dog (2000)

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