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In this inventive collection of poems, McCutcheon engages in sophisticated literary play and deploys the Surrealist practices of juxtaposition. Moving from eroticism to the macabre and from transformative quotation to the individual idiom,
Shape Your Eyes by Shutting Them explores intertextuality in poetry by challenging the cultural tradition of seeing quotation as derivative.
About the author
Mark A. McCutcheon is professor of literary studies at Athabasca University. His scholarly publications include articles on such subjects as Canadian popular culture,
Frankenstein adaptations, and copyright policy in
English Studies in Canada,
Digital Studies/Le champ numérique,
Continuum, and
Popular Music, among other scholarly journals and books. Mark has also published poetry and short fiction in literary magazines like
EVENT, Existere, Carousel, and
subTerrain. Originally from Toronto, Mark lives in Edmonton. His scholarly blog is www.academicalism.wordpress.com and he¿s on Twitter as @sonicfiction.
