Adeena Karasick is a poet, cultural theorist, video and perfomance artist; as well as the award-winning author of six books of poetry and poetic theory, The Arugula Fugues (Zasterle Press, 2001), Dyssemia Sleaze (Talonbooks, 2000), Genrecide (Talonbooks, 1996), Mmewars (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.
Karasick'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". Karasick 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 Edwise Electrolit Videopoem Festival's People's Choice Award. Adeena lives, writes and teaches Poetry and Literary Theory at St. John's University in New York City.
Awards
1994 British Colubia Book Award (Silver): Mmewars
1995 Dorothy Livesay BC Book Award (Silver).
1999 People's Choice Award: Electrolit Videopoem Festival: Alphabet
City
2000 Bumbershoot Book Fair Award, for "Most Adventurous Publication": Dyssemia
Sleaze
Selected Publications
Archetorture (chapbook). (Wave7Press, 1991).
The Empress Has No Closure. (Talonbooks, 1992).
Prairis/cite Maintenance. (Wave7Press, 1993).
Mmewars. (Talonbooks, 1994).
Genrecide. (Talonbooks, 1996).
Dyssemia Sleaze. (Talonbooks, 2000).
The Arugula Fugues. (Zasterle Press, 2001).
The House That Hijack Built (Talonbooks,
2004).
Selected Anthologies
Carnival: Scream in High Park Reader. (Insomniac Press, 1996).
Chain: Hybrid Genres/Mixed Media. (Buffalo UP, 1996).
Poetry Nation: A North American Anthology of Fusion Poets.
(Vehicule Press, 1998).
Short Fuse (Rattapallax Press, 2002)
side/lines (Insomniac Press, 2002)
Vox Populi: Seattle Poetry Festival Anthology (11th Hour, 2002)
Books in Print
Karasick, Adeena
Genrecide. (Talonbooks, 1996). $14.95 ISBN 0-88922-370-X.
Mmewars. (Talonbooks, 1994). $12.95 ISBN: 0-88922-344-0.
The Empress Has No Closure. (Talonbooks, 1992). $11.95 ISBN:
0-88922-307-6.
Dyssemia Sleaze (Talonbooks, 2000) ISBN 0-88922-434-X.
The Arugula Fugues (Zasterle Press, 2001) ISBN 84-87467-35-0.
The House That Hijack Built (Talonbooks,
2004).
Adeena Karasick
351 E. 4th St. #7C,ÊNew York City, N.Y. 10009 U.S.A. Phone
212.505.6531.
adeenakarasick@cs.com
www.adeenakarasick.com