"BEAUTY AND THE BEASTLY PO-BIZ, PART 1" by Amy King
http://therumpus.net/2013/07/beauty-and-the-beastly-po-biz-part-1/#more-116532
Extract:
"Speaking of capital, have you ever noticed how capital and poetry relate? When Vanessa Place recently inaugurated her corporation, VanessaPlace, Inc, the subheading of which is “Poetry is a kind of money,” I wasn’t annoyed because it’s not true; I was annoyed because it can be – if one chooses to package and employ it in the service of capital, in this case, the artist’s capital. From the vanessaplace.biz website, “CEO Vanessa Place, conceptual artist, writer, and attorney, cites the company’s motto as its mantra: We are what we sell, we sell what we are—It’s not the point, it’s the platform.” While I’m not so myopic as to think all conceptual poets and writers are doing the same thing, anyone peripherally conscious of this intentional group knows that Place’s biz motto resonates with the overall tenets of the Conceptual group. More on this shortly."
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