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.
By Adeena Karasick
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). The “Adeena Karasick Archive” is established at Special Collections, Simon Fraser University.
news | 2016-02-03
Valentine’s Day Specials!
…+ Daniel Zomparelli Cosmophilia by Rahat Kurd This Poem by Adeena Karasick Fiction: The World Afloat by …
news | 2013-04-30
This Poem in May 2013!
…and reading from her latest book of poetry This Poem in at the Studio One Reading Series in Oakland at …
news | 2012-12-14
Adeena & bill - Footage From Their 25th!
…bissett collaborations and the Toronto launch for This Poem and novel. …
news | 2012-11-08
a little black strap at Visible Verse 2012
…Pamela Bentley applied a fugal technique to this poem from George Bowering‘s chapbook of the same …
news | 2012-10-19
25th Anniversary Launch for bill bissett and Adeena Karasick!
…Karasick will launch their new books novel and This Poem . …
news | 2012-10-15
Karasick and Collis at Zinc Bar!
…and Stephen Collis will read from their new books This Poem and Dispatches from the Occupation at the Zinc …
news | 2012-09-26
Fall into Surreal Instanter!
…/ Major Ruckus by Garry Thomas Morse, and This Poem by Adeena Karasick. For the Talonbooks launch in …
news | 2012-08-24
This Poem is Meeting Winnipeg
…Adeena Karasick will be launching her new book This Poem on August 30, 2012 at McNally Robinson in …
news | 2012-07-31
Kibitzing With Our Minister of Semiotic Turbulence
…Jake Marmer. Adeena Karasick’s new book is This Poem, available soon. …
news | 2011-09-09
Sachiko Murakami's Launch of Rebuild in Toronto
…pervasive in Vancouver since the 1970’s. This poem is the architectural foundation of …
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