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Grace Andreacchi (born 3 December, 1954) is a U.S.-born author known for her blend of poetic language and modernism
Modernism

Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes both a set of cultural tendencies and an array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century....
 with a post-modernist sensibility. Andreacchi is active as a novelist, poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
 and playwright
Playwright

A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works may be written specifically to be performed by actors or they may be closet dramas or literary works written using dramatic forms but not meant for performance....
.

e Andreacchi was born and grew up in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
. She was educated at the Academy of Mount St. Ursula High School
Academy of Mount St. Ursula High School

The Academy of Mount St. Ursula is a girls? Catholic college preparatory school, established in 1855 in the East Morrisania section of the Bronx, New York....
, and went on to study theatre at the Stella Adler
Stella Adler

Stella Adler was an United States actor and an acclaimed acting teacher , who founded the Stella Adler Conservatory in New York City , where she taught the Method acting technique of acting for over four decades ....
 Studio. A brief period on the stage was followed by the study of philosophy
Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
, first at Hunter College
Hunter College

Hunter College of the City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York , located on Manhattan's Upper East Side....
 (New York City), and then at Harpur College (Binghamton, New York).






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Grace Andreacchi (born 3 December, 1954) is a U.S.-born author known for her blend of poetic language and modernism
Modernism

Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes both a set of cultural tendencies and an array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century....
 with a post-modernist sensibility. Andreacchi is active as a novelist, poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
 and playwright
Playwright

A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works may be written specifically to be performed by actors or they may be closet dramas or literary works written using dramatic forms but not meant for performance....
.

Biography

Grace Andreacchi was born and grew up in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
. She was educated at the Academy of Mount St. Ursula High School
Academy of Mount St. Ursula High School

The Academy of Mount St. Ursula is a girls? Catholic college preparatory school, established in 1855 in the East Morrisania section of the Bronx, New York....
, and went on to study theatre at the Stella Adler
Stella Adler

Stella Adler was an United States actor and an acclaimed acting teacher , who founded the Stella Adler Conservatory in New York City , where she taught the Method acting technique of acting for over four decades ....
 Studio. A brief period on the stage was followed by the study of philosophy
Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
, first at Hunter College
Hunter College

Hunter College of the City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York , located on Manhattan's Upper East Side....
 (New York City), and then at Harpur College (Binghamton, New York). In her final year she received a fellowship to study at Bedford College, London. During this time she specialised in the philosophies of ancient Greece
Ancient Greece

The term Ancient Greece refers to the period of History of Greece lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1100 BC and the Dorian invasion, to 146 BC and the Roman Republic conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth ....
 and medieval Europe, as well as additional studies in Chinese philosophy
Chinese philosophy

Chinese philosophy is philosophy written in the China Chinese culture of thought. Chinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years; its origins are often traced back to the I Ching , an ancient compendium of divination, which uses a system of 64 hexagrams to guide action....
 and freudian thought. Her early marriage (1976) to Edward Hadas has resulted in three children. Since 1989 Andreacchi has lived in Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
, moving first to Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, and later to Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 (1994 – 1998) and London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, where she now resides. In 2008 she founded a writers' cooperative, to publish of literary fiction and poetry.

Works

Her first work was the play Vegetable Medley (1985, Soho Repertory Theater, New York and Boston Center for the Arts
Boston Center for the Arts

The Boston Center for the Arts is a 501 nonprofit visual and performing arts complex in the South End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The BCA houses several performance and rehearsal spaces, restaurants, a gallery, the headquarters of the Boston Ballet, the Community Music Center of Boston and several other arts organizations....
, Boston, Massachusetts), an experimental work fusing elements of comedy and melodrama in a highly poeticised language. Her first novel, Give My Heart Ease (1989), received the New American Writing Award and was translated into Slovenian as Pomiri mi srce. Admired by some critics, others found its frank depiction of an abusive sexual relationship disturbing. .

Her 1993 novel, Music for Glass Orchestra, garnered much critical acclaim for its wildly beautiful, surrealistic style. . Set in Paris, it contains a wide-ranging discourse on the music of J.S. Bach, with special attention to the Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin. Her first collection of poetry, Elysian Sonnets and Other Poems (1990) was published as a chapbook in Paris.

In 1995 Andreacchi was a collaborator in the project Violin Music in the Age of Shopping, a work by avant-garde composer and violinist Jon Rose
Jon Rose

Jon Rose is an Australian violinist. He consistently performs at numerous music festivals, and has appeared on over 60 albums, and worked with artists such as Derek Bailey, Fred Frith, Shelley Hirsh, Chris Cutler, Otomo Yoshihide, KK Null, Alvin Curran, Evan Parker, Phil Minton, John Cage, Tony Oxley, Steve Beresford, Eugene Chadbourne, Bo...
. For her contribution Andreacchi was made an Honorary Fellow of the Rosenberg Foundation (Sydney, Australia).

The novel Scarabocchio (1995), an architecturaly adventurous ‘inverted fugue
Fugue

In music, a fugue is a type of counterpoint composition or technique of composition for a fixed number of melody, normally referred to as "voices"....
’, is based on Goethe’s Italian Journey
Italian Journey

Italian Journey is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's report on a his 1786/87 travels to Italy, published in 1816/17. The book is based on Goethe's diary....
, and continues the discussion of Bach through the character of ‘Barton Beale’, a lightly fictionalized Glenn Gould
Glenn Gould

Glenn Herbert Gould was a Canadian pianist, noted especially for his recordings of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, his remarkable technical proficiency, his unorthodox musical philosophy, and his eccentric personality and piano technique....
. The short novel Poetry and Fear (2001) is set in the Berlin opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
 world, and uses the myth of Orpheus
Orpheus

Orpheus was a legendary figure, probably from Thracian origin, venerated by the Greeks and Thracians of the Classical age as a chief among poets and musicians, and the perfector of the lyre invented by Hermes....
 to explore themes of love and loss. Recent works show an increased emphasis on Christian
Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a Monotheism#Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus and interpreted by Christians to have been prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament....
 spiritual themes. A continued interest in the culture of the far east is reflected in Two Brothers (2007), a version of the Korean pansori
Pansori

Pansori is a genre of Music of Korea. It is a vocal and Percussion instrument music performed by one sorikkun and one pansori gosu . The term pansori is derived from pan, meaning "a place where many people gather," and sori, meaning "sound."...
 tale Heungbu and Nolbu.

Bibliography


Novels


  • Give My Heart Ease ISBN 0932 96690X (1989)
  • Music for Glass Orchestra ISBN 1852422 998 (1993)
  • Scarabocchio ISBN 978-1-4092-3643-6 (2008)
  • The Prodigy (1996)
  • Poetry and Fear ISBN 978-1-4092-3642-9 (2008)


Plays


  • Vegetable Medley (1985)
  • Raphael and Tobias (1994)
  • Two Brothers (2007)


Two Martyr Plays
  • Agnes in 2008
  • Lawrence in 2008


Short Fiction


  • Envy (1987)
  • The Golden Dolphins (The Carolina Quarterly 1991)
  • Sic et Non (1992)
  • The Black Swan (1994)
  • Sesame and Roses (1994)
  • Violin Music in the Age of Shopping -The Judy Papers (Editors Jon Rose
    Jon Rose

    Jon Rose is an Australian violinist. He consistently performs at numerous music festivals, and has appeared on over 60 albums, and worked with artists such as Derek Bailey, Fred Frith, Shelley Hirsh, Chris Cutler, Otomo Yoshihide, KK Null, Alvin Curran, Evan Parker, Phil Minton, John Cage, Tony Oxley, Steve Beresford, Eugene Chadbourne, Bo...
     and Rainer Linz) ISBN 0646 18105 X,(NMA Publicaions, 1994)
  • The Princess Trigona (1995)
  • The Adventures of Little Crow (2004)


Poetry


  • Elysian Sonnets and Other Poems (The Paris Press 1990)
  • Gestes Interdits (1990)
  • Demon Gold (1991)
  • Sky Country (1993)
  • To Orpheus (1998)
  • Eurydice (1999)
  • Songs for a Mad Queen (2000)
  • Berlin Elegies (2001)
  • Butterfly Nights (2002)
  • The Palace of White Death (2003)
  • Paper Flowers (2004)
  • Little Poems for Children (2005)


Other Media

  • Mister Moon is a short film based on a story by Grace Andreacchi.
  • Angels Over Berlin is a film version of the poem, with Grace Andreacchi reciting it.
  • Little Crow is a short film of a story, with Andreacchi reading.
  • Poem for a New Baby is a video of Andreacchi's poem The Day We Met, Andreacchi reads.


Further reading


  • Author’s website
  • An interview with Grace Andreachi on Authortrek
  • Grace Andreacchi on LibraryThing
  • Grace Andreacchi on Issuu
  • Grace Andreacchi on UNESCO Index Translationum
  • Grace Andreacchi on Poets & Writers.org
  • Grace Andreacchi on doollee.com