DUKE UNIVERSITY (bridge between East and West campuses)
Durham, North Carolina, October 27, 2001

This installation of P.P.P. wears a quote from André Breton as its crown, "Who knows if we are not somehow preparing ourselves to escape the principle of identity?" Attempting to engage with certain theoretical discussions concerning identity politics, the poem grapples with the location of the body in narratives of subjectivity. In addition, the poem wished to take its location into account--on all sides of the bridge, it asks its readers/viewers "to enter" the text as they move toward and/or away from Duke's East and West campuses. The project's public poets included: Virginia Tuma, Courtney Baker, Desirée Martín, Donna Senf Carroll, and Amy Carroll.

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ANATOMY, A DENSITY OF MARKERS TO MARK ME. DESTINY, A MONOPOLY IN NEED OF ONTOLOGICAL DEREGULATION. EVEN "THE DIALECTIC," LIMITING (Who knows what an-aesthetic we'll be called upon to breathe...). LEFTOVER: "THE POETIC," AN ELLIPSIS, WORN THIN AS THE SKIN, THE BONES' "BODY." MEANWHILE, ABRIDGMENT METES AMBIGUITY: A BRIDGE, OPEN AS A BOOK (Open, sesame). A LUNG, LIABLE AS THOSE WHO'D ABROGATE IDENTITY.