Re: new memetics book?

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Thu 09 Jan 2003 - 21:27:12 GMT

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    > At 08:33 PM 1/9/2003 +0000, you wrote:
    > >http://www.adeenakarasick.com/book4.html
    > >
    > >Actually, I'm not sure whether it is or not.
    > >
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    > >
    >
    > It's a book of poetry published in 1994. Quote from Publisher's
    > Weekly on the writer's latest work:
    >
    > >Publishers Weekly
    > >Continuing her pop-charged, extroverted and libidinal poetic
    > >investigations, Canadian ex-pat Karasick (Memewars; The Empress Has
    > >No Closure; etc.) here offers her most visually compelling,
    > >over-the-top collection to date. A high-end production--one of the
    > >few paperbound books of poetry to boast full-color, glossy pages
    > >throughout--the book uses photographs, drawings, multiple typefaces,
    > >the "open field" spatial accoutrements of projective verse and other
    > >kitchen sink-isms to propel words across, under and on top of the
    > >page--and in one's face. The sequence "Menaheh Yehuda" invokes the
    > >1997 bombing of a Jerusalem market and jars each syllable forward on
    > >the phonemic contours of the preceding--trashing, along the way,
    > >notions of lyrical morality by sexualizing the event's horror and
    > >troping Jewish cosmopolitanist stereotypes: "Tropic/ blot clotters/ a
    > >cotillion of many cullers, isolata eros swigs in/ blunt pulses &
    > >skins the surface of/ her dimpled limits/ fermented in riggish
    > >gashings/ grasped in spronged frottage ruffled fetchings/ fraught
    > >with h ute conduits." The book's centerpiece, "Improbable Grammars V"
    > >juxtaposes a barrage of quotes about and images of the Western Wall
    > >with deformations of Matisse, Haring, adlike depictions of women's
    > >bodies and didactic theoretical text. The clashing color images and
    > >attention-deficit typefaces ("dyssemia" is a coinage for disrupted
    > >units of meaning) are eye-catching, but fail to develop a sustained
    > >critique of their seeming targets--sexism, capitalism, anti-Semitism,
    > > troubled Arab-Israeli relations--though the text-as-theory and the
    > >naked, juggled graphemes (the effect of which can't be reproduced
    > >here) conspire to create some intriguing hermeneutic whirlpools. The
    > >book as a whole is most successful as an exhibitionistic, youthful,
    > >pseudo-hysterical display of ambition and desire, and points the way
    > >to further poetic appropriations of images and politically explosive
    > >material. (Sept.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|
    > >
    >
    > Ray Recchia
    >
    Sporry about my previous post; I misclicked a link.
    >
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