Background
Karasick, Adeena Michelle was born on June 1, 1965 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Daughter of Kenneth Brian and Frances Bettina Karasick.
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Adeena Karasick’s fourth book of poetry achieves an astonishing layered complexity and maturity. Dyssemia Sleaze is at one and the same time Karasick’s most political and most personal book to date. Its performance is that of an inter-folded language, woven (shuffled) back and forth between the perpetual absence of intimations of the thing itself and the rupture of the ever-present metamorphoses of its mediation. This tapestry of syntax, the fitting of one word to another, becomes a triumph, in this book, of the feminine sensibility over the linear, masculine, causal narrative (what used to be called naive realism’). It is the feminine soul crying at the Mehitzah,’ the wall that separates the male and female worshipers in the Jewish temple. It is the woman at the temple screen, impervious to anything but language, as the current post-modern heir to authenticity. This is a book of walls: defensive walls that keep people out-the garrison; and inclusive walls that keep people in-paradise. And it is a book of transgression-of messengers, both voluntary and mercenary, who pass and carry the notes and letters, both living and dead, between those who are without and those who are within those walls. At times, Karasick’s language becomes the veritable milk of life: you, the reader, the child of innocence, get whatever mama’s eaten that day,” both itself,” and itself mediated,” always unpredictably. The very sensuality of its presentational style (full colour image-text collage) is at one and the same time in dire conflict with the complex austerity of its exegesis-the heartbreak of recognition illustrated in the mirror of desire. Knowing here (her) is always the illusion of the illustration of the object of desire: certainty is a fetish of bondage; knowing the opening of the mouth (wound) of the tear into substance. And the laughter, that dangerous laughter
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( The House That Hijack Built explores the possibilities ...)
The House That Hijack Built explores the possibilities of meaning production when language is pushed to its limits of logical” or normative semantic patterns. If to hijack” is to steal in transit,” this text focuses on how language, with its idioms and ideologies, is appropriatedhijacked and transportedto unknown destinations in the act of its transmission. In her fifth collection of poems / collages, Karasick explores the intersection between das Wahre (the true) and die Wahrheit (the truth), as a language at war with itself re-presents a real world” reworded between narrations of the real”inscribed in ruptures, betrayals and unfulfilled promisesand speaks to a real world’ that wreaks havoc with the very truth it seeks to inhabit. Included in this collection is a homolinguistic trans’elation” of the first chapter of the Sefer Yetzirah. Known as The Book of Creation or The Book of the Letters, it is the oldest and most mysterious of all Kabalistic texts, dating back to 100 BCE. Its focus is on the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabethow they were formed, how they inter-relate, how they make meaningthe text itself inscribed through slippage, elision, rupture and undecideability, foregrounding language as a continuum of letters, names, mathematical equations and gates of meaning. By a technique of slight displacement, slipping one word under another, Karasick mimics Nietzsche’s Geschichte Eines Irrtums History of an Error, announcing the narration of a fabrication: how the true world” finally becomes a fable.
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Karasick, Adeena Michelle was born on June 1, 1965 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Daughter of Kenneth Brian and Frances Bettina Karasick.
Bachelor, University British Columbia, 1987. Master of Arts, York University, 1991. Doctor of Philosophy, Concordia University, 1997.
Visiting professor Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, 1992—1993. Assistant professor York University, Toronto, Canada, 1994—1996. Professor St. John's University, New York City, since 2000, BMCC, City University of New York, New York City, 2007—2009.
( The House That Hijack Built explores the possibilities ...)
( Adeena Karasick’s fourth book of poetry achieves an ast...)
Member of Writers Union Canada, Association Writers & Writing Programs, Modern Language Association.
1 child Safia Fiera.