This Poem - Karasick, Adeena

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Auteur(s) : Karasick, Adeena

Editeur : Talonbooks

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/10/2012

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 112

Expédition : 259

Dimensions : 21.8 x 14.2 x 1.0

ISBN : 9780889226999

Résumé :

This Poem is an ironic investigation of contemporary culture and the technomediatic-saturated world we are enmeshed in. Composed in the style of Facebook updates and extended tweets, each section infuses itself with continuously shifting tones, styles, and commentary which in turn are provocative, emotive, and deeply satiric. Mashing up lexicons of Stein, Zukofsky, Shakespeare, Whitman, the recent financial meltdown, semiotic theory, Lady Gaga, Derrida, and Flickr streams, This Poem is a self-reflexive romp through shards and fragments of post-consumerist culture.

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Biographie:

Adeena Karasick is a New York-based Canadian poet, performer, cultural theorist and media artist and the author of ten books of poetry and poetics. Her Kabbalistically inflected, urban, Jewish feminist mashups have been described as electricity in language (Nicole Brossard), proto-ecstatic jet-propulsive word torsion (George Quasha), noted for their cross-fertilization of punning and knowing, theatre and theory (Charles Bernstein), a twined virtuosity of mind and ear which leaves the reader deliciously lost in Karasick's signature 'syllabic labyrinth' (Craig Dworkin), one long dithyramb of desire, a seven-veiled dance of seduction that celebrates the tangles, convolutions, and ecstacies of unbridled sexuality... demonstrating how desire flows through language, an unstoppable flood of allusion (both literary and pop-cultural), word-play, and extravagant and outrageous sound-work. (Mark Scroggins).

Most recently is Checking In (Talonbooks, 2018) and Salom?: Woman of Valor (University of Padova Press, Italy, 2017), the libretto for her Spoken Word opera co-created with Grammy award winning composer, Sir Frank London. She teaches Literature and Critical Theory for the Humanities and Media Studies Dept. at Pratt Institute, is Poetry Editor for Explorations in Media Ecology, 2018 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Award recipient and winner of the 2016 Voce Donna Italia award for her contributions to feminist thinking and 2018 winner of the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. The Adeena Karasick Archive is established at Special Collections, Simon Fraser University.

Sommaire:

Adeena Karasick is a media artist, performer, cultural theorist, and the critically acclaimed author of seven books of poetry and poetic theory. She teaches Literature and Critical Theory for the Humanities and Media Studies Department at Pratt Institute in New York. Karasick is also co-founding Artistic Director of the KlezKanada Poetry Festival and Retreat. In 2017 the Adeena Karasick Archive was established at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia.

Her writing is marked with an urban, Jewish, and feminist aesthetic that continually challenges normative modes of meaning production and blurs the lines between popular culture and scholarly discourse. It has been described as electricity in language (Nicole Brossard), proto-ecstatic jet-propulsive word torsion (George Quasha), and noted for its cross-fertilization of punning and knowing, theatre and theory (Charles Bernstein), its twined virtuosity of mind and ear which leaves the reader deliciously lost in Karasick's signature 'syllabic labyrinth' (Craig Dworkin).

Karasick's most recent publications are Salom?: Woman of Valor (University of Padova Press, 2017), a Jewish-feminist revisiting of the Biblical story of Salom?, and The Medium is the Muse: Channeling Marshall McLuhan (NeoPoiesis Press, 2014).

Karasick has lectured and performed worldwide, participated in international conferences, telepoetic colloquia, and literary festivals. She regularly publishes articles, reviews, and dialogues on contemporary poetry, poetics and cultural/semiotic theory. She also produces videopoems and sound recordings of her work, which highlight its radical performativity (find them on YouTube), and she was also featured on the TV series Heart of a Poet, produced in conjunction with Bravo! TV.

More information on Karasick and and her work can be found on adeenakarasick.com