janet kauffman

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  • writing
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    • debris fields
    • eco-dementia
  • work by students
  • bio note



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Eco-dementia
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Trespassing: Dirt Stories & Field Notes
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from Telescopic Heavens
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streamwalks
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Obscene Gestures for Women
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Characters on the Loose
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oh corporeal
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Poetry and Fiction 
Eco-dementia (Wayne State Univ. Press, 2017). See Eco-dementia project
Streamwalks (Coldwater Press, chapbook, 2013)
oh corporeal (Coldwater Press, chapbook, 2010)
Trespassing; Dirt Stories & Field Notes (Wayne State Univ. Press, 2008) 
Five on Fiction (Burning Deck Press, 2004) 
Rot (New Issues, 2001) 
Characters on the Loose (Graywolf, 1997)  
The Body in Four Parts (Graywolf, 1994) 
Obscene Gestures for Women (Knopf, 1989)  
Where the World Is (Montparnasse Press, 1988) 
Collaborators (Knopf, 1986) –  finalist PEN/Faulkner Award 
Places in the World a Woman Could Walk (Knopf, 1983) –  winner of Rosenthal Award from American Academy-Institute of Arts and Letters 
The Weather Book (Texas Tech University Press, 1981) – AWP Award Series Selection 
Writing Home, with Jerome McGann (Coldwater Press, 1978) 


Non-fiction
"Down the Drain," in Fresh Water; Women Writing on the Great Lakes (MSU Press, 2006)
"A Dirty River Runs Beneath It; Midwest Agriculture's Filthy Secret," Counterpunch (2003)
"The Fantasy of the Clip Art Farm," Dissent (Summer 2002) 
"Buried Water," in The Huron River; Voices from the Watershed, (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2000)


Mixed Media
Debris Fields - photography, prose (2019- )

Eco-dementia Project – photography, mixed media, poetry (2016-2018)
Armed Bugwomen, Creatures from the Depths, and other Planetary Forces Confront the Polluting
          Mechanisms of Industrial Manure Operations –
slideshow/video, photos, miscellaneous toys (2016)
The Violence of Plowshares -–tobacco sizing boxes, stamped text, found objects, Ag yearbooks (2006) 
This is the House That Jack Built –8 recycled plastic pages, 1/16in. dowels, mixed text (1999)
being imperfectly broken – recycled wood, wire binding, scanned tobacco leaves (1998)
Telescopic Heavens – collaged text on recycled plastic, 4 double- sided pages, 1in. X 1 ½in. (1998)
But Still the Posse Comes Back Swinging – board pages, March to Montgomery, AL,  collaged text from March, 1965
            spiral bound (1998) 
Red Barn Gone Black – hand-made, cut-out images etching-pressed on newsprint, 8in. X 10in. (1997)
Stain & Suture Book – hand-made, 6 cut pages, boxed, 8in. X 8in. (1997)       


Collaborative Projects 
          with Nancy Chalker-Tennant, working for 3 days, every other year for 12 years

fingers - hybrid book, hand-bound, hand-painted, collaged images (2007)
Another Account: The Life of a Stream – collaborative installation (2003) and hybrid book (2005)
Meet Me Machine – machine prints (1999); machine images, text - full-color 12 pages, accordion fold (2001)
We Are Moving Words  (1997)
X Amount of Time/Lines (1995)

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Collaborators
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The Body in Four Parts
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Rot
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Five on Fiction
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Places in the World a Woman Could Walk


























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