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February 2012

Thursday February 16, 2012

2012 Gabriola Poetry Festival

Adeena Karasick

Adeena Karasick is a poet, cultural theorist and the critically acclaimed author of seven books of poetry and poetic theory. She is currently Professor of Global Literature at St. John’s University. Her writing has been described as “electricity in language” and noted for its “cross-fertilization of punning and knowing, theatre and theory”; it 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. Karasick has lectured and performed worldwide, participating on an international scale at 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.

The winner of the MPS Mobile Award as being the world’s first “Mobile Poet” whereby her work is being made available on mobile devices (cell phones and smartphones) throughout the world.

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

Adeena Karasick was a featured poet on the Heart of a Poet series, produced in conjunction with Bravo! TV. Produced and directed by Maureen Judge in association with Bravo!, and hosted by spoken word poet Andrea Thompson, Heart of a Poet is a hip half-hour show that takes viewers inside the poetry community, in all its various forms, alternate incarnations and unfettered diversity. For more information, please visit their web site heartofapoet.ca

Adeena Karasick’s video-poems are now accessible on YouTube. Check out the link.

Author photo credit: Safia Karasick Southey

December 2011 : Adeena Karasick at post_moot

December 2011 : A B Series Launch For Two New bill bissett Books

December 2011 : Talonbooks Presents Karl and Christy Siegler's Farewell Bash

May 2011 : it's a bouche time!

April 2011 : Vancouver Is...The Place to Be!

February 2011 : Lingual Ladies (Put a Frame on It) - Adeena Karasick

January 2011 : North of Invention: A Canadian Poetry Festival

December 2010 : Make That What: time and Artie Gold Launched in Vancouver

November 2010 : Adeena Karasick Reads From This Poem in Vancouver

September 2010 : This is Ground Control to bill bissett

August 2010 : Adeena Karasick at the Kingston WritersFest

BOOK AWARDS

Finalist for the 1995 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

BOOK AWARDS

Bumbershoot Most Adventurous Award Winner, 2000

QUOTES OF NOTE

“Her writing is an extraordinary tour de force in the new paraliterary initiative of ‘fiction/theory’ that blends various genres and revels in their ‘contamination.’”
— Canadian Book Review Annual

“If today or in the future I were to knock on Karasick’s poem-door, and ask (assuming appropriate familiarity), ‘Can Adeena come out and play?’ I have little doubt that the answer would be, ‘Yes!’ and that right quick she’d be out on the porch and just like that she’d lexically skip and cartwheel down the street and around the corner, heading right to wherever it was that the words promised the most fun that day. I’d happily try to keep up with Karasick, just to see where she went and what kind of fun she got into. Even if she stumbled a bit, or took a wrong turn or two along the way, I’m sure it’d be, for my mind, a real good, a most interesting, time.” — Steven Fama

QUOTES OF NOTE

Perhaps the strangest, most irreverent and utterly shameless of possible responses to a tragedy, Karasick’s is also, finally, deeply, and compellingly human.
— Publishers Weekly

QUOTES OF NOTE

Her most visually compelling, over-the-top collection to date.
— Publishers Weekly

QUOTES OF NOTE

Beautiful linguistic carnage…
— Word

Bridging the genre gap…
— Link

Visually striking…
— Jewish Post and News

QUOTES OF NOTE

“[Karasick] enacts language in a concrete way, so that it becomes a sort of golem figure she has animated through the sacred words. And she calls on the figural body of words (their etymology, morphology, phonology and usage) more than their meanings to build her poetry-essays.”
— Canadian Literature

“ Mêmewars is electricity in language, eccentricity at its best where ‘there’s a profusion of presents.’ This book makes eye contact with she and with me. It reminds me how being a reader can be exciting.”
— Nicole Brossard

QUOTES OF NOTE

All of it hums with intellectual energy, much of it is even funny.
— Books in Canada

An impressive deconstruction of language and meaning…
— Canadian Literature