Amuse Bouche - Brossura

Karasick, Adeena

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0889226040 ISBN 13: 9780889226043

Casa editrice: Talonbooks Ltd, 2009

Riassunto

Startling and arresting, mashing up the lexicon of war with post-industrial consumerism, haute cuisine, couture, language, Eros, and desire, Karasick's sixth book serves up a linguistic onslaught of plastic explosives. Whether exploring commas as the mistresses of language; rules of textual engagement read through systems of courtship; a love song to Osama bin Laden; or a sassy sendup of Hollywood Kabbalah; Amuse Bouche is at once dark and satirical, exuberant and amorously rigorous - it will make your body politic tremble, your head spin, and your mouth water. Her Katyusha garnished, encrusted margins will leave you salivating long after the bomb, that ever-present yet elusive threat of instantaneous deconstruction, has dropped into our moveable feast, and silenced the babble of tongues our global discourse has become.

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Her writing is an extraordinary tour de force in the new paraliterary initiative of fiction/theory’ that blends various genres and revels in their contamination’.”
Canadian Book Review Annual

If today or in the future I were to knock on Karasick’s poem-door, and ask (assuming appropriate familiarity), Can Adeena come out and play?’ I have little doubt that the answer would be, Yes!’ and that right quick she’d be out on the porch and just like that she’d lexically skip and cartwheel down the street and around the corner, heading right to wherever it was that the words promised the most fun that day. I’d happily try to keep up with Karasick, just to see where she went and what kind of fun she got into. Even if she stumbled a bit, or took a wrong turn or two along the way, I’m sure it’d be, for my mind, a real good, a most interesting, time.”
Steven Fama

L'autore:

Adeena Karasick
Adeena Karasick is a poet, cultural theorist and the critically acclaimed author of seven books of poetry and poetic theory. She is currently Professor of Global Literature at St. John’s University. Her writing has been described as electricity in language” and noted for its cross-fertilization of punning and knowing, theatre and theory”. Karasick is a featured poet on the Heart of a Poet series and is the winner of the MPS Mobile Award recognizing her as being the world’s first Mobile Poet”.

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• Editore: Talonbooks Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0889226040
• ISBN 13: 9780889226043
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 106