Poet and translator Oana Avasilichioaei spent one third of her life in a small industrial city in Romania, one third on the west coast in Vancouver and one third in Montreal, Quebec, where she is currently living. Her work explores history, geography, public space, textual architecture, multilingualism, translation, textual and collaborative performance.
Her books include Abandon (Wolsak & Wynn, 2005) and feria: a poempark (Wolsak & Wynn, 2008) which delved into the fissures and fractures of a public park. She has translated poetry of Nobel-nominated, Romanian poet Nichita Stănescu, published as Occupational Sickness (BuschekBooks, 2006) and collaborated with Erín Moure on Expeditions of a Chimæra (BookThug, 2009), a dialogic work on authorial experiments and translational impossibilities. A translation of Les Îles by Quebecoise poet, Louise Cotnoir, will be published as The Islands in 2011 (Wolsak & Wynn).
Avasilichioaei has performed her work and given talks on poetics and translation at readings, conferences and festivals in Canada, USA, Mexico and Europe and was the founder and curator of the Atwater Poetry Project reading series in Montreal from 2004 to 2009.
Selected Publications
feria: a poempark (Wolsak & Wynn,
2008)
ISBN: 978-1-894987-29-5
Occupational Sickness (translations of Romanian poet Nichita
Stanescu), (BuschekBooks, 2006)
ISBN: 1-894543-27-0
Abandon (Wolsak and Wynn, 2005)
ISBN: 1-894987-05-5
Close Your Eyes (chapbook), (Delirium Press, 2005)
ISBN: 0-9684601-5-1
The Dictator's Garden (chapbook) (2003)
ISBN: 0-9734536-0-5
Occupational Sickness (chapbook of selected translations, Nichita
Stanescu), (Intrepid Tourist Press (ITP), 2000)
ISBN: 0-9685161-7-3
Books in Print
feria: a poempark (Wolsak & Wynn,
2008)
ISBN: 978-1-894987-29-5, $17.00
Occupational Sickness (BuschekBooks, 2006) ISBN: 1-894543-27-0, $15.00
Abandon (Wolsak and Wynn, 2005) ISBN: 1-894987-05-5 $15.00
Oana Avasilichioaei
E-mail: oana.ava@gmail.com
website: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ11gBLPCWw