Mike Schertzer
Mike Schertzer (born May 27, 1965, in Brantford, Ontario) is a Canadian poet and artist. Schertzer graduated in 1987 from the University of British Columbia with a B.Sc. In biology, and lived for some time in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Mike Schertzer
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- poet
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• Opacity. Vancouver (2000) • Les Essais • Diderot 2013 • Les Ville Invisibles (Nuit Blanche 2015, Bruxelles) • Pain Proust
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In 2017 he obtained a PhD from the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie/Sorbonne Universités (ED515, Complexité du Vivant). He currently lives and works in Paris, France. According to his personal homepage, he has worked as a research technician since 1987, and as of 2009, he has been employed as a molecular biologist at the Curie Institute in Paris, France. I also create text-based art, mostly overpainted books (negatexts). I also do performances and interventions that typically run for at least 8 hours." He claims to have devised the longest acronym in the English language, Acronymic in his book Cipher and Poverty.
The following are some books by Schertzer: • The House of Misfortune (1994). Tonguenail Books. • Short Films from the 14th Century (1994). Exile Editions. • A Hand for the Drowned (1994). Ekstasis Editions. • A Personal Dictionary (1997). Tonguenail Books. • Cipher and Poverty (The Book of Nothing) (1998). Ekstasis Editions. • Absulation(1998). Self-published. • Devil's Wine (2003). Self-published. • Peindicy (2007). Exile Editions.
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