Wild Dialectics - Paperback

Samuels, Lisa: - Lisa Samuels grew up in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East. Her first poetry book THE SEVEN VOICES (O Books, 1998) emerged alongside her PhD dissertation (Virginia 1997), a study of modernist poetry and critical practice. She has also published five poetry books with Shearsman; a letterpress book of poems and drawings, Mama Mortality Corridos (Holloway, 2010); several poetry chapbooks; a childhood memoir, ANTI M (Chax Press, 2013); and an experimental novel, Tender Girl (Dusie, 2015). Her soundwork includes a 2-CD version of her book TOMORROWLAND (Shearsman, 2009), now being made into a film by director Wes Tank, and her writing has inspired musical scores by composer Frédéric Pattar and others. Her essays focus on transculturalism, genre, identity and the body, the digitas, and imagining what we don't know, and her editing work includes A TRANSPACIFIC POETICS, co- edited with Sawako Nakayasu from Litmus Press. In 2006 she moved from the U.S. to Aotearoa/New Zealand, where she teaches writing, literature, and theory and lives with her family in Tamaki Makaurau/Auckland.