Tale Light - New & Selected Poems 1984 - 2009

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. " - Marjorie Perloff

About the author

KAREN MAC CORMACK is the author of eight previous books of poetry, including Quirks & Quillets, Marine Snow, and The Tongue Moves Talk. Her work has appeared in such anthologies as The Art of Practice: Forty-five Contemporary Poets, Out of Everywhere: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America and the UK, and Moving: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women. Born in Zambia, she is based in Toronto.

Product details

• Authors: Julie Joosten, Karen Mac Cormack
• Publisher: Book*hug Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2010
• EAN: 9781897388549
• ISBN: 978-1-897388-54-9
• No. of pages: 120
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 228 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 310 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies