Adeena Karasick's third book of poems provides the reader with a experience akin to a roman candle going off in the dark night of your soul. Palimpsesting Hitler and Derrida with The Violent Femmes, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, images from consumer advertising, and the cartoons of Gary Larson, Grenrecide explores the intersection of multiple cultures, codes, idioms and constructs that impact on the social construction of female identity. An extended and extensive play and pun on shifting perceptions and language, it provides a glimpse of the very origins of new possibilities of the spoken word."...an interlingual, intralingual, and intersemiotic translation of various discourses (poetic, critical, autobiographical, feminist, and historical, with a special emphasis on the history of Jews and the Holocaust) and languages (English, French, German, Hebrew), including the intersemiotic transcoding between the body and writing....In the tradition of the historical avant-garde...the writing is certainly a feast for readers who appreciate 'the dance of the intellect'". -- Canadian Book Review Annual