Chambersonic

(Paperback)

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Imagine the book as acoustic chamber. Inside it, imagine a stage populated with players, each given a part. Breathing together, the ensemble enacts translations between instruments and materials. The space comes alive: as rehearsal, document, poem, score, and as reverberation of adjoining environments aural, social, physical, visual, political. A conductor fades in and out, the audience is choreographer. Chambersonic is this acoustic chamber.

Author Bio

Oana Avasilichioaei interweaves poetry, sound, performance, photography, and translation to expand and trouble ideas of language, histories, polyphonic structures, and borders of listening. She has published six collections of poetry hybrids, including Eight Track (Talonbooks, 2019, finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award and A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry) and Limbinal (Talonbooks, 2015), created many performance/sound works that mix electronics, ambient textures, noise, and vocal play, and written a libretto for a one-act opera Cells of Wind (FAWN, 2022). She has also translated many books of poetry and prose from French and Romanian, including Martine Desjardins's Medusa (Talonbooks, 2022), Catherine Lalonde's The Faerie Devouring (Book*hug 2018, QWF's Cole Foundation Prize for Translation), and Bertrand Laverdure's Readopolis (Book*hug, 2017, Governor General's Literary Award for Translation). Based in Montral with forays into New York, Avasilichioaei frequently performs her work in Canada, the United States, and Europe. See www.oanalab.com. Eight Track Finalist 2020 The A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry Finalist 2020 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry Wigrum Runner-up 2014 Alcuin Award for Book Design in Canada Winner 2012 Grafika Grand Prize Winner (Typography)