Lex-Icon Blog Project Post 64: Amanda Deutch

Disco Sister Love Poem to the World

“Language itself can be a visual medium.  Often when writing, I look at individual letters and words as visual structures. When I think about visual poetry, I think about Apollinaire, da Levy and cinema.  I have been taking photographs for nearly as long as I have been writing poetry and recently began fusing the two mediums in a way that works symbiotically. I merge text with my photographs and the two ignite, each form illuminating the other to create something new.”—Amanda Deutch

 BIO:

Amanda Deutch is the author of three chapbooks. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has been published in Esque, EOAGH, Boog City, Shampoo, Full Metal Poem, 6x6, and many others. She was the 2007 recipient of a Footpaths to Creativity Fellowship in the Azores.  She teaches with the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project, is the Artistic Director of Parachute: the Coney Island Performance Festival and lives in Brooklyn.  This poem, “Disco Sister Love Poem to the World” is part of a triptych in a series of photopoems. More photopoems  can be found on Revolutionesque, http://www.esquemag.org/2012/02/01/amanda-deutch/

Pour une présentation de ce blog, voir //

To see a presentation of this blog project:

http://lex-icon21.blogspot.fr/2012/03/lex-icon-projet-de-blog-du-20-mars-au.html

To see our CONFERENCE programme for 7-10 June 2012//

Pour voir notre programme du colloque qui aura lieu les 7-10 juin 2012:

http://lex-icon21.blogspot.fr/2012/03/programme-pour-lex-icon-traiter-limage.html