Dyssemia Sleaze

Gregory Pike is a sessional English instructor at the Memorial
University of Newfoundland.

According to the back cover, “dyssemia” means “flawed information
reception” and “sleaze” means “rough with projecting fibres.”
Dyssemia Sleaze is on the cutting edge of the Canadian avant-garde.
While Karasick’s poems are informed by critical theory (the language
and aporia crowd), they are not merely experimental play. Vivid,
engaging, entertaining, and insightful, they are concerned with more
than a struggle with language as they delve into gripping cultural and
historical issues while contesting language’s ability to communicate.
Although the linguistic gymnastics are a bit overdone at times, this
collection can be heartily recommended to readers with a taste for
problematic, multi-genre, multi-media discourse.