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Sharon Mesmer (born 1960 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Polish-American poet, fiction writer, essayist and professor of creative writing. Her poetry collections are ''Annoying Diabetic Bitch'' (Combo Books, 2008), ''The Virgin Formica'' (Hanging Loose Press, 2008), ''Vertigo Seeks Affinities'' (chapbook, Belladonna Books, 2007), ''Half Angel, Half Lunch'' (Hard Press, 1998) and ''Crossing Second Avenue'' (chapbook, ''ABJ Press'', Tokyo, 1997, published to coincide with a month-long reading tour of Japan sponsored by ''American Book Jam'' magazine). Her fiction collections are ''Ma Vie à Yonago'' (Hachette Littératures, Paris, in French translation by Daniel Bismuth, 2005), ''In Ordinary Time'' (Hanging Loose Press, 2005) and ''The Empty Quarter'' (Hanging Loose Press, 2005). She teaches in the undergraduate and graduate programs of New York University and The New School. She has lived in Brooklyn, New York since 1988 and is a distant relative of Franz Anton Mesmer, proponent of animal magnetism (or mesmerism) and Otto Messmer, the American animator best known for creating Felix the Cat. ==Career== Mesmer, the daughter of second-generation Polish and German immigrants, was born and raised on the south side of Chicago, in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.〔(), "Back of the Yards," ''Encyclopedia of Chicago''.〕 The area, named for its proximity to the infamous Union Stockyards, was the subject of Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel, ''The Jungle''. Her first published works were articles on being a disaffected teenage punk which appeared in the seminal Chicago punk ‘zine the ''Gabba Gabba Gazette''〔(), ''The Gabba Gabba Gazette''.〕 in 1977 while she was a student at St. Joseph High School. Her first published poem, “The Nordic Skull In Double Exposure” appeared in Maureen Owen’s New York-based literary magazine, ''Telephone'', in 1980; the next year her poem “The Anger of Animals” appeared in ''Intro 12'', a magazine of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Mesmer received a B.A. in Writing/English from Columbia College in 1983, where she and other female students of the poet Paul Hoover, notably Lydia Tomkiw and Deborah Pintonelli, became instrumental in galvanizing the links between the poetry and punk music scenes of the late ‘70’s and early ‘80’s (other prominent local poets at that time included Elaine Equi and Jerome Sala). In 1984 Mesmer, Pintonelli and poet Connie Deanovich published the literary magazine ''B City'', and then in 1985, Mesmer, Pintonelli and poet/fiction writer Carl Watson published the broadsheet ''letter eX''. They were frequent readers at the Get Me High Lounge in the Wicker Park area of Chicago, and early poetry slam competitors (Mesmer was later a slam semi-finalist at the Nuyorican Poets Café in New York in 1991). After Mesmer left Chicago for New York in 1988, she became a student of Allen Ginsberg in the Brooklyn College MFA poetry program. Through Ginsberg’s nomination, she was awarded a MacArthur Scholarship (given through the college from a gift by John Ashbery) and represented the college in the 1989 Poetry Society of America’s “Best of New York Writing Programs.” Writing about Mesmer’s first book, ''Half Angel, Half Lunch'', Ginsberg characterized her work as “always interesting, beautifully bold and vivaciously modern.”〔(), Allen Ginsberg on ''Half Angel, Half Lunch''.〕 It was through the poet that Mesmer was introduced to Buddhist practice. Because of her association with Ginsberg, she is considered a post-Beat poet (see Beat Generation). Her early work also evinces ties to the New York School and post-Language poetry.〔(), See entry in ''Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets'', edited by Terrence Diggory, Facts on File, Inc, 2009.〕 By 2003 Mesmer was one of earliest practitioners of flarf poetry, the first poetry movement of the 21st century. She performed with other members of the flarf collective at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, MN in 2008〔(), "Free Verse: The Flarf Collective," Walker Art Center, 2008.〕 and at the Whitney Museum in New York City in 2009, as part of the “Flarf Versus Conceptual” event.〔(), "An Evening of Contemporary Poetry: Conceptual Writing and the Flarf Collective," Whitney Museum of American Art, April 17, 2009.〕 Four of her flarf poems appear in the ''Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology'' (second edition, 2013). Mesmer lectures and performs her work widely: at the 2010 Iceland Wave Festival in Reykjavik, Iceland; at a reading and panel discussion sponsored by the Danish Writers’ Union in 2010; and at the Ovidius Festival at Neptun Beach, Romania, in 2009.〔() "Buna Ziua from Romania," ''The Best American Poetry'' blog, June 8th, 2009.〕 Her work has appeared in ''Poetry'',〔(), "The Swiss Just Do Whatever," ''Poetry'', July/August 2009.〕 the ''Wall Street Journal'',〔(), "Search for a New Poetics Yields This: 'Kitty Goes Postal/ Wants Pizza'," ''The Wall Street Journal'', May 25th, 2010.〕 ''New American Writing'', the ''Evergreen Review'',〔(), "This Gorilla Called Philip Sidney (for Roy Scanton)," the ''Evergreen Review'', Summer 2013〕 ''Eleven Eleven'',〔(), ''Eleven Eleven'', Issue 15.〕 and the ''Brooklyn Rail'',〔(), "Revenge," ''The Brooklyn Rail'', April 1st, 2005.〕〔(), "I Wanted to Compose a Canticle of Exaltation and Praise, Stupid University Job," ''The Brooklyn Rail'', July 1st, 2005〕 among others. Anthology appearances include ''I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing By Women'' (Les Figues, 2012), Poems for the Nation: Edited by Allen Ginsberg (Seven Stories Press, 2000) and ''The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry'' (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1999). Her awards include a Fulbright Specialist grant (2011), an Alumna of the Year Award from Columbia College Chicago (2009), a Jerome Foundation/SASE award (as mentor to poet Elisabeth Workman, grantee, 2009) and two New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships (2007 and 1999). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sharon Mesmer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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