Inventory, Inventoried

An Inventory after Marguerite Pigeon's Inventory. (Anvil Press, 2009).

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S = Selling
C = Conceptualism
B = Biography
P = Pages
I = Interviews
R = Reviews
M = Miscellanea

Category	Item
S	There are no customer reviews yet
C	Object as muse
B	A writer of poetry and fiction
R	Pigeon was recently a participant in the Studio.
S	Year: 2009
P	Sketch of the word “Inventory” in different lettering
M	Possible death of the object
B	Editor of academic publications
C	Temporal, political, locational and psychic aspects
S	Language: English
P	Ants are an empire of females
B	Work has appeared in a variety of journals
S	Binding: Paperback
R	translated into Estonian using Babelfish and then returned to English.
M	Further to my last Marguerite Pigeon,
I	Preferably the banana?
P	Ant-girls in an empire of females
C	Francis Ponge, the French poet who considered ordinariness and objects to be (the) way to go for poetry
P	Sketch of card catalogue drawers
C	A collection of 58 object poems
I	I’m not really “poetic” in my daily life or anything
P	Sketch of an apartment block
P	Sketch of clothespins
P	Sketch of a hair dryer
P	Sketch of a key
P	Sketch of lipstick tube, open and rolled up
P	Sketch of mirror
P	Sketch of newspaper
P	Sketch of tea bag
M	My class focuses on object poetry.
B	Lives in Vancouver
C	Reciprocal relation between subjects and objects
P	Above it all a woman, ready to do violence
S	No synopsis available
B	and Vancouver poet and bon vivant Marguerite Pigeon drops in to read from her mesmerizing collection Inventory
I/C	fragility, class, and women
S	Publisher: Anvil Press
P	Sketch of mouth with tongue sticking out
I	My stapler. My tea bag. Myself.
R	The jury loved this book and would like to gesture a large congratulations to Marguerite.
P	push crampons into your sides like ticks, picks like mosquito proboscises, extract our bite-sized information
S	Dewey Decimal: 811.6
P	Don’t be hyperdramatic
M	this tangible approach
P	*see also: Glacier
I	It sounds pretentious but it’s true: I’m reading Proust
S	Pages: 71
P	They’re not all this accessible, of course
S	Books, poetry, Canadian
P	the elastic, rather than drawing the line, becomes it
B	Marguerite Pigeon appears courtesy of The Canada Council for the Arts through The Writers’ Union of Canada
P	“Exocrine to endocrine,
I	The things around me—literally within reach
S	ISBN: 1895636973
P	Bend the metal, please./Bend the metal for order.
S	Dimensions: 185mm x 127mm x 7mm
P	fatty two-by-four a-howl or

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Nikki Reimer, author of [sic], lives in East Vancouver.