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From: Barrett Watten [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 9:25 AM
To: Poetics Listserv
Cc: K. Silem Mohammad; Catherine Daly
Subject: K. Silem Mohammad and Catherine Daly at Wayne State
K. Silem Mohammad and Catherine Daly
New genre poets / digital littérateur(e)s
Wednesday, March 23 / Reading at 3:30 PM
Informal discussion on poetics and new media at 11 AM
10th Floor Conference Room, 5057 Woodward Avenue
Wayne State University, Detroit
K. Silem Mohammad is the author of the ground-breaking collections Deer
Head Nation (Tougher Disguises, 2003) and A Thousand Devils (Combo
Books, 2004), which combine lyric, conceptual, and new media voices and
sources. His multi-tasking language hits a cultural mainline of absurd
politics, totalizing dissociation, and simulacral affects.
Readers have responded: "K. Silem Mohammad's text, constructed from
screened bites of information ideology, takes the national hysteria
seriously, 'spookily,' and presents us with a total, civilized violence"
(Laura Elrick); "Let loose on the database, these poems pile detritus
upon detritus with every glup glup of another wet deer head across the
search engine" (Stephanie Young). After experiencing his work, you will
never see a deer head the same way: out of the stream of information, a
gothic afterimage. His work is featured in The Best American Poetry
2004, edited by Lyn Hejinian. He teaches literature and creative writing
at Southern Oregon University.
Links
http://limetree.ksilem.com <http://limetree.ksilem.com/> / {lime tree}
http://www.durationpress.com/bookstore/index.htm / Hanging Out with
Pablo & Jennifer
Catherine Daly published DaDaDa, a stellar collection of experimental
lyrics in 2003 (Cambridge, U.K, Salt Press); Locket is forthcoming from
Tupelo Press this year. About DaDaDa there is much to say, for instance:
"Cavernous and electric, DaDaDa unfolds as a hypnotically twisted love
tome investigating the r/elation between language systems and the
erotics of communication. Plotting the truncated lives of letters, as
mistresses, matrices, vessels, vials, viols, vile induces, indices,
Catherine Daly’s passionate tripartite tour de force rages with
linguistic virtuosity as a 'cross-stitched sampler' of contemporary
culture, 'hot sync simulacra,' literary heresies" --Adeena Karasick.
Poet/critic Aldon Nielsen agrees: "Seldom is such a commodious pathway
opened with a first book. It is, as the author says, 'Huge toroid /
experiments.'" Dadada is planned to be the first trilogy of a 1,000-page
project called Confiteor. Her work is extensively available online.
She received an MFA from Columbia University in 1991. An applications
architect for fifteen years, she created digital systems for numerous
corporate, state, and media clients. She created and taught the first
online poetry workshops at UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program; has taught
critical theory, women’s studies, and literature courses at UCLA
Extension, Antioch LA, West LA College, LA Southwest College; and has
curated readings at UCLA's Hammer Museum. She lives with her husband in
La Fayette Square in Los Angeles.
Links
http://www.catherinedaly.info <http://www.catherinedaly.info/> / home
page
http://cadaly.blogspot.com <http://cadaly.blogspot.com/> / Catherine
Daly's Blog
http://www.getunderground.com/underground/poetry/article.cfm?Article_ID=
689 / reading review
http://ineradicablestain.com/dollgames/daly.html / interview with
Shelley Jackson
The reading flyer will be available at
http://www.english.wayne.edu/fac_pages/ewatten/pdfs/kaseycasia.
<http://www.english.wayne.edu/fac_pages/ewatten/pdfs/torres.pdf> pdf
<http://www.english.wayne.edu/fac_pages/ewatten/pdfs/torres.pdf>
Diasporic Avant-Gardes is curated by Barrett Watten, Carla Harryman, and
Charles Stivale, and sponsored by an Innovative Projects Grant, WSU
Humanities Center. For more info contact Carla Harryman at
[log in to unmask] / 313-577-4988. Free admission; the public is
cordially invited.
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