Poetry. "Dana Teen Lomax's work navigates the vexed relations of life behind the bars of the $$, where gender, race, and class are not merely 'discourses' but lived vectors of experience, and where the logic of exchange value mediates that experience to the point where 'the $u$pen$e i$ in the death toll$.' CURRENCY is nothing less than an oppositional archeology of consumer culture as it reproduces its logics on and in our bodies—both personal and body-political—against a field of possibilities increasingly threatened by the privatization and colonization of the life-world. Writing a radical biopolitics—a 'biopoethics'—would be that practice that articulates itself in resistant song, and, that in Lomax's expanded field, of necessity also dances, in paroxysms full of both rage and desire."—David Buuck

Author City: SAN QUENTIN, CA USA

Dana Teen Lomax is the author of several books of poetry, including from DISCLOSURE (Black Radish Books, 2011), Rx (Dusie Kollektiv, 2010), CURRENCY (Palm Press, 2006), ROOM (a+bend press, 1998), and co-editor, with Jennifer Firestone, of LETTERS TO POETS: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT POETICS, POLITICS, AND COMMUNITY (Saturnalia Books, 2008). Supported by the California Arts Council, the Zellerbach Family Fund, the Marins Arts Council and other organizations, her work has appeared most recently in Jacket, Poets and Writers, WAR AND PEACE (O Books), IMAGINARY SYLLABI (Palm Press), and Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern University Press). She served as the Interim Director of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center in San Francisco, and as the Artistic Director for Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories & Songs for Children. She teaches at San Francisco State University, Merritt College, and Marin Juvenile Hall. She lives in San Quentin, California.