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"But writing! What an invention! What a marvelous monstrosity! When I write I know that I am drawing. (…) As an invention, writing has replaced memory with law, and therefore metaphor with “truth.” Writing invented history and tied us to it. All of us who write, then, or use words in any way, have the responsibility to become poets." [full text [here](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/2338)] Jimmie Durham has remained an active poet and essayist throughout his career. His writings have been published in various magazines, books and catalogues. In this ensemble you'll find a selection of texts written by Durham after the publication of [A Certain Lack of Coherence](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/828) in 1993. See also: [Poetry](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/poetry)
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The Right to Dismiss
Jimmie Durham, The Right to Dismiss, 2002. Text.
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The Hellen Keller Memoria...
Jimmie Durham, The Hellen Keller Memorial Bunch of Words, 2007. Text.
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A Project to Create Sympa...
Jimmie Durham, A Project to Create Sympathy in the Home, 1998. Text.
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The Piece of Wood
Jimmie Durham, The Piece of Wood, 2005. Text.
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Jimmie Durham
Jimmie Durham was born in 1940 in (or, as he himself says, ‘under’) the state of Arkansas in the US, into a Cherokee family. After working di
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Maria Thereza Alves
Maria Thereza Alves was born in Brazil and moved to New York at a young age. She has worked for the International Indian Treaty Council in Ne
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