Adeena Karasick - biography, career, poetry
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Born in Winnipeg, of Russian Jewish heritage, Adeena Karasick is a poet / cultural theorist and video and performance artist; as well as the award-winning author of five books of poetry and poetic theory, The Arugula Fugues (Zasterle Press, 2001), Dyssemia Sleaze (Talonbooks, 2000), Genrecide (Talonbooks, 1996), Mêmewars (Talonbooks, 1994), and The Empress Has No Closure (Talonbooks, 1992. Dedicated to the interplay of conflictual dialects, aesthetics, textures that impact on the construction of feminist and cultural identity, her articles, reviews and dialogues on contemporary poetry, poetics and cultural/semiotic theory have been published worldwide. Karsick’s writing has been described as "electricity in language," "an impressive deconstruction of language and meaning which is "exuberant in [its] cross-fertilization of punning and knowing, theatre and theory" and "inserts itself amongst the corpus of texts that are changing, and being changed by, contemporary pedagogies". Adeena has performed across Canada, the U.S., Europe, S.E. Asia and Africa, and has presented lectures on contemporary poetry, poetics and cultural/semiotic theory at conferences, festivals and telepoetic colloquia worldwide Her debut video, Alphabet City won the 1999 Edgewise Electrolit Videopoem Festival’s People’s Choice Award. Adeena lives, writes and teaches Poetry and Literay Theory at St. John’s University, and lives in New York City.
Books & Chapbooks
* The House That Hijack Built. Talonbooks: Vancouver, 2004.
* Genrecide. Talonbooks: Vancouver, 1996.
* Prairis/cite Maintenance. Wave7press: Vancouver, 1995. (Chapbook)
* Mêmewars. Talonbooks: Vancouver, 1994.
* The Empress Has No Closure. Talonbooks: Vancouver, 1992.
* Archetorture. Wave7press: Vancouver, 1990. (Chapbook)
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
* "Shekhina: The Speculum that Signs", in Nashim.Number II, Jerusalem: Spring 5759, 1999
* "bill bissett: A Writing Ouside Writing", in The Capilano Review, Vancouver (October, 1997)
* "Of Poetik Thinking: A ’Pataphysical Exploration of Derrida and the Kabbalah" in Impratur (Luton, 1996).
* "Hautécouture: Refracting the Spoken Word Frequency" in Parallelogramme. Vol. 20. No. 3 (Toronto: December, 1994).
* "N(or)th of Ar(c)ticulation" in A Poetics of Criticism (Buffalo, 1994).
* "Poetix" in Writing for the New Coast Anthology (Buffalo, 1993).
* "The Empress Has No Closure" in Open Letter. (Redrawing the Lines: the Next Generation) Eighth Series, No. 4: Summer, 1992.
* "Paralog" in In the Midst (Warren Tallman Writings 1962 - 1992), Talonbooks: Vancouver, 1992. pp. 283-319.
* "Tract Marks: Echoes and Traces in the Toronto Research Group" in Open Letter. Canadian? Literary? Theory?) Eighth Series, No. 3: Spring 1992.
* "In the Force of Desire" in West Coast Line: The New Vancouver Writing Issue: No. 1, 1990.
* "Neo-Modern Is Coming On: A Dialogue" in Line Magazine. No. 14, 1989.
* "In the Rock’s Cleft" in Tracing the Paths: Reading / Writing the Martyrology. Ed. Roy Miki. Talonbooks: Vancouver, 1988.
POETRY ANTHOLOGIES / JOURNALS / MAGAZINES
* "Telephone Talk" in Shaman Lady Mainline Lady
* "And this is the letter" in Contemporary Verse 2. Vol. 21 No. 4 (Winnipeg, Spring 1999).
* "Spectral Profanities" in Chain 6, (Ed. Jena Osman and Julianna Spahr. Buffalo UP: Buffalo, 1999).
* "Solutio Lingua" in The Canadian Journal of Contemporary Literary Stuff. Issue 9. Vol.I (Toronto: October 1998).
* "Genrecide" in Poetry Nation: A North American Anthology of Fusion Poets. (Ed. Regie Cabico and Todd Swift. Vehicule Press, Quebec, 1998).
* "Phalanx Swank" in Seeds. Vol. 4 Issue I (Ed. Richard Grove. Hidden Brook Press: Toronto, 1997).
* "Genrecide" in Chain: Hybrid Genres/Mixed Media. Vol. 3.2, (Ed. Jena Osman and Julianna Spahr. Buffalo UP: Buffalo, 1996).
* "From Genrecide" in Tessera "Dispositions" Issue. Vol. 20, (Toronto: Summer 1996).
* "From Genrecide" in Carnival: Scream in High Park Reader (Ed. Peter McPhee. Insomniac Press: Toronto, 1996).
* "From Genrecide" in Agent: Broken Word Manual. Vol.I No.I (Ed. Dan Mitchell and Jake Brown: Montreal, Spring, 1996).
* "Flank" in The Link. Vol.16, No.36, (Montreal: March, 1996).
* "Opine Sagely" in The Link. Vol.16, No.33, (Montreal: Feb. 1996).
* from "Genrecide" in The Link. Vol.16, No.33, (Montreal: Feb. 1996).
* from "Prairis/cite Maintenance" in Prairie Fire. (Ed. Andris Taskins. Winnipeg: Spring 1996).
* "Genrecide" and "Floruit Retinue" in index. Ed. Trish Salah (Montreal: Dec. 1995).
* "Telephone Talk" in Revival: Spoken Word from Lollapalooza 94. Ed. Juliette Torrez, Liz Belile, Mud Baron, Jennifer Joseph. (Manic D Press: San Fransisco, 1995).
* "Prairis/cite Maintenance" in Filling Station. (Calgary, 1995)
* "Ululate Pollulation" in Pawn. Vol II. No 1. Ed. Lee Gotham. (Montreal: Spring 1995)
* From "Prairis/cite Maintenance" in Corridors, The Concordia Anthology. Vol II. Ed. Eric Williamson (Montreal: March, 1995).
* From "Cut Throat" in Oversion. Ed. John Barlow. (Toronto: March, 1994).
* From "Genrecide" in DaDaBaby 4. (Semirotic issue). Ed. Jamie Reid. (Vancouver: April, 1994).
* From "Cut Throat" in Front Lines Anthology of Action Poetry. Vol. I. (Banff: April, 1994).
* "Bad" in Front Lines Anthology of Action Poetry. Vol. II. (Banff: April, 1994).
* "Poetix" in Writing for the New Coast Anthology (Buffalo, 1993).
* "Poetix" in SinOverTan. Ed. Michael Holmes and Bill Kennedy. (Toronto: April, 1993).
* "from Mêmewars" in Caberet Vert. Ed. Learn/Yates. April, 1993.
* "mid kaddish" in Rampike: Toronto, 1991. Vol. 3:7.
* "From Archetorture" in Big Allis: New York, 1991. Issue 4.
* "From Archetorture" in Prism International: Vancouver, 1991.
* Selections from "In Andean Passes" in Tessera. Vol. 8, Spring, 1990.
* "blissed out on the path" in Bite. Vol. 1 No. 2, 1986.
* From "dis(emanations" in ARC. No. 11, Spring, 1986.
* From "dis(emanations" in Arts Review. Winter, 1986.
From 1985 - 1990 Adeena was founding co-editor of Anerca Magazine
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