Startling and arresting, mashing up the lexicon of war with post-industrial consumerism, haute cuisine, couture, language, Eros, and desire, Karasick's sixth book serves up a linguistic onslaught of plastic explosives. Whether exploring commas as the mistresses of language; rules of textual engagement read through systems of courtship; a love song to Osama bin Laden; or a sassy sendup of Hollywood Kabbalah; Amuse Bouche is at once dark and satirical, exuberant and amorously rigorous - it will make your body politic tremble, your head spin, and your mouth water. Her Katyusha garnished, encrusted margins will leave you salivating long after the bomb, that ever-present yet elusive threat of instantaneous deconstruction, has dropped into our moveable feast, and silenced the babble of tongues our global discourse has become.