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Wednesday, February 8, 12

At War with Truong Tran   - san francisco
FaceTime   - ny

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After Brown, scholar Kaplan Harris presented a previously unknown document from Radcliffe College’s alumni office archives. Kaplan’s offerings, from a questionnaire sent to Weiner by Radcliffe College in 1974 just after the completion of her Clairvoyant Journal, show Weiner having fun with the questionnaire format, a format intended to solicit information and patronage from Radcliffe alumnae. After the question “Describe work of past years” and the heading “title and position” Weiner wrote, “ DESIGNER of LADIES / UNDERWEAR 1959-1972 / Now I write full time / I stopped working in 1973 BECAUSE there was no more work at my job. FIRED.” Under the question “What experiments in your life have had a major effect on the choices you have made? List below briefly.” Weiner wrote in line number one, “TAKING ACID, becoming a 39 yr old hippie” reversing this answer with her answer in line number two, “STARTING TO WRITE + PERFORM at 34.” In line number three Weiner wrote, “SEEING WORDS ON MYSELF IN THE AIR, EVERYWHERE at 44.” In response to the question “Everyone’s life is somewhat different from the way she had expected it to be at a previous time. Could you list, briefly, some of the major differences between your life now and what you had expected it would be at the time of your graduation from college?” Weiner wrote, “I did not expect to have any psychic experiences TOO MANY. / The words in capitals are the ones I see. Psychic experiences begin at 40. I also / did not expect to WRITE POEMS, or do poetry events / DELIGHTFUL. I never expected to SEE WORDS.”