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Persephassa Phersephatta Persephonia Phersephone Persephone Soteira Persephone Despoena Proserpine Proserpina Persephoneia Periphone Kore.
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ROXANNE CARTER.
I was born in a California port town bordering the Pacific Ocean. I grew up in a valley near the sea, scrambling through the chaparrall after lizards and bounding between rocks in the barranca. I was a voracious reader, staying up late reading by the cerulean light of the public access channel. I have a BFA from the College of Creative Studies at UCSB, an MFA in Fiction from Brown University (thesis: glamorous freak: how i taught my dress to act), where I also taught Introductory Fiction and Intermediate Fiction workshops, and I'll continue in the schoolyard at DU, pursuing a Ph.d in Creative Writing.
ABOUT PERSEPHASSA.
Kore -- Greek for maiden or young girl. After her abduction by Hades, Kore was transformed into Persephone, she who destroys the light; her name was not safe to speak aloud. Persephassa is an older, archaic form of the name, which suggests pre-Hellenic origins. In Rome she was called Proserpina. Additionally, a kore is a classical Grecian statue characterized by an androgynous image and an enigmatically alluring smile.
Persephassa.com was registered in December, 2003. Previously, this site existed in various manifestations on kore.lhabia.com [2000-2003], mesmerized.org/kore [1999-2000] and kore.prettie.com [1998-1999].
I'm fascinated by early 20th century and modernist women authors who either wrote diaries or otherwise incorporated biography/autobiography in their work. This whole list needs to be updated & I will do it soon, but: My literary influences include Anaïs Nin, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette and Violette Leduc. Contemporary writers I admire include Gertrude Stein, Opal Whitely, Caroline Blackwood, Carole Maso, Jane Bowles, Edna O’Brien, Dorothy Parker, Diane Wakoski, Elaine Kraf, Anna Kavan, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Marguerite Young, Nancy Mitford and Sylvia Plath. I'm also interested in the photography of Cindy Sherman, Francesca Woodman, Diane Arbus, Ruth Bernhard, Elinor Carucci as well as artists Beatrice Wood, Dame Darcy and Anne Truitt. I'm drawn toward artists who use femininity and the body as source material for dialogues on intimacy, relationships and gender. Lately I have become interested in more contempoaray artists, such as Sophie Calle, Caroline Bergval, Helene Cixous, Yoko Ono, Susan Sontag, Selah Saterstrom, Fluer Jaeggy, Danielle Dutton....
I adore Andy Warhol, Roland Barthes, Prince, Robert Coover, John Cayley, Brian Evenson, and Michael Joyce.
As a child, I received a Polaroid for my 10th birthday, and after that I exclusively shot with disposable cameras up until the summer of 1998 when I received my first digital camera, the adorabley square & clunky Sony Mavica FD-7. I purchased a Nikon Coolpix 4300 in the fall of 2002, and replaced it with a Canon PowerShot S3 IS in the spring of 2007. I've started a flirtation with Super 8mm film - I have a Bauer C2 silent movie camera....
