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Bergvall, Caroline

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Drift / Bergvall, Caroline., 2014

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Identifier: CC-60268-10003268
Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Caroline Bergvall (born 1962) is a poet of French-Norwegian nationalities who has lived in England since 1989. She was born in Hamburg. She graduated from the Universite de Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle, from University of Warwick, and from Plymouth University. She was Director of Performance Writing at Darlington College of Arts, from 1994 to 2000. She taught at Cardiff University and Bard College.Bergvall has developed audio texts and collaborative performances with sound artists in Europe and North America; her critical work is largely concerned with emerging forms of writing, plurilingual poetry, and mixed media writing practices, also Performance Writing. Her work often explores archaic versions of languages. A review of 2011's Meddle English: New and Selected Texts in The Brooklyn Rail noted that her essay "Middling English" urges readers and writers working with English to "excavate its fractured and fractious history." [4]She wrote FIG (Goan Atom 2), poetic and...
Dates: 2014