Lisa Samuels
Lisa Samuels | |
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| Occupation | Poet, Teacher |
| Alma mater | University of Virginia, University of North Carolina |
| Genres | Poetry, Theory, Literary Criticism, Experimental Fiction, Memoir |
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Lisa Samuels is a transnational (US and New Zealand) poet, novelist, memoirist, editor, and theorist.
She earned her PhD from the University of Virginia.
She currently teaches literature, theory, and creative writing at The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Samuels focuses on transformance and identity, how humans become signs and how language speaks the human and non-human world. Her critical essays engage with power and the body, transnationalism and displacement, and ‘imagining what we don’t know’ in theories such as membranism and distributed centrality. After earlier work on transatlantic and US writers (such as Laura Riding, Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino), including the essay ‘Deformance and Interpretation'[1], her work took a critical turn to include the transpacific. Her genre experiments extend across poetry, memoir, essay, and fiction into work with film and sound art.
Biography[edit]
Lisa Samuels was born in Boston, 1963. She grew up in the US, Sweden, and Israel/Palestine. In addition to university education and work in the US, Samuels has lived in Yemen, Malaysia, Spain, and since 2006 in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Poetry, fiction, memoir[edit]
- Foreign Native, Black Radish Books (US) 2018
- Symphony for Human Transport, Shearsman Books (UK) 2017
- Tender Girl, Dusie Press (US) 2015
- Anti M, Chax Press (US) 2013
- Wild Dialectics, Shearsman Books (UK) 2012
- Gender City, Shearsman Books (UK) 2011
- Mama Mortality Corridos (poetry & drawings), Holloway Press (NZ) 2010
- Tomorrowland, Shearsman Books (UK) 2009
- Throe, Oystercatcher Press (UK) 2009
- The Invention of Culture, Shearsman Books (UK) 2008
- Increment /a family romance, Bronze Skull Press (US) 2006
- Paradise for Everyone, Shearsman Books (UK) 2005
- War Holdings, Pavement Saw Press (US) 2003
- The Seven Voices, O Books (US) 1998
- LETTERS, Meow Press (US) 1996
Selected criticism and editing[edit]
- A TransPacific Poetics (anthology). Editor; co-editor Sawako Nakayasu. Litmus Press (US), 2017
- Over Hear: six types of poetry experiment in Aotearoa/New Zealand (essay). TinFish Press (US), 2015
- Anarchism Is Not Enough by Laura Riding. Editor (critical edition). University of California Press (US), 2001
- Poetry and the Problem of Beauty. Guest Editor. Modern Language Studies 27.2 (US), 1997
Selected soundwork, film and video[edit]
- Script, actor, soundtrack, co-producer for Tomorrowland, 2017[2]
- Six Pack Sound, audio recording from Tender Girl, 2015[3]
- Jackson Mac Low video #88, performance commissioned for 154 Forties, 2015[4]
- “Love poem (Draft),” poetry video for The Volta, 2013
- “UnViking” poetry video for Toothache duets, with SJ Fowler, 2013
- Composer and performer, 2-CD version of Tomorrowland (voice & soundscapes). Deep Surface Productions (NZ), 2012
External Links[edit]
“Surrealism and Contemporary Poetry.” David Spittle. Shuddhashar 2, 2017
“The story of Lisa Samuels’ Tomorrowland.” Michael Peverett. Intercapillary Space, 2017
"Frédéric Pattar: Peephole metaphysics, for mezzo soprano and ensemble." Radio France Musique, 2014
"12 or 20 questions (second series) with Lisa Samuels." rob mclennan. Blogspot, 2012
References[edit]
- ↑ “Deformance and Interpretation.” With Jerome McGann. New Literary History 30.1 (1999): 25-56. Reprinted in Radiant Textuality (New York: Palgrave, 2001): 105-35.
- ↑ "Tomorrowland". Imdb. 2017. director Wes Tank (US), 2017. Art film based on Samuels’ 2009 book and 2012 CDs.
- ↑ "Six Pack Sound: Lisa Samuels". New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre. 2015.
- ↑ Lisa Samuels reads Jackson Mac Low's #88: "Don't Step on Anybody's Translation". Tim Page, video, 2015.
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