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At Issue
Karen Mac Cormack's At Issueis a sequel of sorts to Fit to Print(also from Coach House Books), her collaborative poetic examination of the newspaper with British poet Alan Halsey. In At Issue,Mac Cormack examines the format and contents of the lifestyle magazine. Utilizing the vocabulary and spelling found in Vogue(both British and American versions), Self(a health/fitness magazine geared to female readership) and Prevention(another health magazine), the poems in At Issuereflect and refract the experience of reading these magazines. (Mac Cormack notes that an interesting - if frightening - fact is that there are fewer typos in Voguethan in most scholarly books published in North America.) As an alternative to the 'mined' creativity of the magazine poems, Mac Cormack also includes a number of texts from other sources.
Talking Poetics
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. TALKING POETICS is a book of full-length interviews with the poets Karen Mac Cormack, Jennifer Moxley, Caroline Bergvall and Andrea Brady carried out between 2008 and 2009 in the UK and USA by Scott Thurston. During the course of these conversations, the poets explore a huge range of topics likely to interest anyone concerned with the state of innovative poetry today. Each interview considers the complete oeuvre of each writer and includes detailed engagements with selected texts as well as unfolding themes such as the role of innovation, the politics of poetry and reflections on lyric and autobiography. Each interview is footnoted and there is an extensive bibliography.
Implexures
This innovative new book from Canadian poet Karen Mac Cormakc, IMPLEXURES, has been referred to as "a collective assemblage of enunciation" by Jean-Jacques Lecercle. "Karen Mac Cormack builds an exquisitely delicate polybiographic structure out of research, hearsay and quotation that zings to the core of identity and displays how collaborative it really is. This book is one of those are sensual delights that also really makes you think.
Tale Light
This volume brings together selections from Karen Mac Cormack's poetry publications 1984-2009: Nothing by Mouth, Straw Cupid, Quill Driver, Quirks & Quillets, Marine Snow, The Tongue Moves Talk, At Issue and Vanity Release. Also included are previously uncollected poems and a selection of new work. Some of the earlier poems appear inrevised form. No one writing in North America today can match Karen Mac Cormack's exquisite poise, the integrity of her poetic line, her command of verbal nuance, pun, and paragram. Ð Marjorie Perloff
Nothing by Mouth
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What Are Poets For?
Conceptions and practices of poetry change not only from time to time and from place to place but also from poet to poet. This has never been more the case than in recent years. Gerald Bruns’s magisterial What Are Poets For? explores typographical experiments that distribute letters randomly across a printed page, sound tracks made of vocal and buccal noises, and holographic poems that recompose themselves as one travels through their digital space. Bruns surveys one-word poems, found texts, and book-length assemblies of disconnected phrases; he even includes descriptions of poems that no one could possibly write, but which are no less interesting (or no less poetic) for all of that. The p...
The Material of Poetry
Poetry is philosophically interesting, writes Gerald L. Bruns, "when it is innovative not just in its practices, but, before everything else, in its poetics (that is, in its concepts or theories of itself)." In The Material of Poetry, Bruns considers the possibility that anything, under certain conditions, may be made to count as a poem. By spelling out such enabling conditions he gives us an engaging overview of some of the kinds of contemporary poetry that challenge our notions of what language is: sound poetry, visual or concrete poetry, and "found" poetry. Poetry's sense and meaning can hide in the spaces in which it is written and read, says Bruns, and so he urges us to become anthropol...
The Last Word
The Last Word is a snapshot of the next generation of Canadian poets, the poets who will be taught in schoolsNvoices reflecting the '90s and a new type of writing sensibility. The anthology brings together 51 poets from across Canada, reaching into different regional, ethnic, sexual and social groups. This varied and volatile collection pushes the notion of an anthology to its limits, like a startling Polaroid. Proceeds from the sale of The Last Word will go to Frontier College, in support of literacy, programs across the country.
My Way
"Verse is born free but everywhere in chains. It has been my project to rattle the chains." (from "The Revenge of the Poet-Critic") In My Way, (in)famous language poet and critic Charles Bernstein deploys a wide variety of interlinked forms—speeches and poems, interviews and essays—to explore the place of poetry in American culture and in the university. Sometimes comic, sometimes dark, Bernstein's writing is irreverent but always relevant, "not structurally challenged, but structurally challenging." Addressing many interrelated issues, Bernstein moves from the role of the public intellectual to the poetics of scholarly prose, from vernacular modernism to idiosyncratic postmodernism, fro...
