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The Empress Has No Closure

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Saturday March 27, 2010 in Books

The Empress Has No Closure

By Adeena Karasick

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.

ISBN 13: 9780889223073 | ISBN 10: 889223076
6 W x 9 H inches | 100 pages
$16.95 CAN / $12.95 US
Rights: World
Backlist | Poetry | Bisac: POE011000

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QUOTES OF NOTE

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

About the Contributors

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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