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The Empress Has No Closure
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Empress Has No Closure
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Adeena Karasick
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:100 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 153 |
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| Category/Genre | Poetry |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780889223073
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| Classifications | Dewey:811 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Talon Books,Canada
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| Imprint |
Talon Books,Canada
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| Publication Date |
1 January 1992 |
| Publication Country |
Canada
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Description
The Empress Has No Closure contains, as a centre-piece, the "Alefbet Transfers," a meditative, spacial explication of the 22 figures of the Hebrew alphabet.
Author Biography
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".
Reviews"All of it hums with intellectual energy, much of it is even funny." -- Books in Canada "An impressive deconstruction of language and meaning ... " -- Canadian Literature
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