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Karen Mac Cormack:
TALE LIGHT: NEW & SELECTED POEMS 1984-2009
192pp.
isbn 978-1-904052-26-5
£14.95 postfree in UK
Review copies will be sent on request.
TALE LIGHT draws from previously uncollected poems, revisions of published earlier poetry from Nothing by Mouth, Straw Cupid, Quill Driver, Quirks & Quillets, Marine Snow, The Tongue Moves Talk, At Issue, Vanity Release, and a rich selection of new work. For the first time the strategies Mac Cormack develops for each separate project (her often witty and ludic explorations, wherein she confronts the habitual in language and representation) are brought together for the reader as a collective textual experience.
‘Mac Cormack’s concern with the contingent, fugitive aspects of sense and perception as revealed when confronted with their temporal character yields a pleasure not as mastery but of mystery and surprise. … The atomic components of Mac Cormack’s text function as “lucid apertures”. Openings “to supply instead of render” a focus on the multiple.’ Scott Pound, American Book Review
‘From the beginning this poet’s approaches to writing have been beguiling: seemingly aloof and simultaneously engaging, probing and juxtaposing lexes, iconoclastic in her approaches and very funny. … Few writers make such a wrestle with language and our own unconscious syntactic projections onto the printed page so rich and illuminating.’ David Annwn, The David Jones Journal
Other titles by Karen Mac Cormack available from West House
( * = not represented in Tale Light ) :
* Implexures (Complete Edition). Polybiographical prose-poem. Chax & West House 2008. 132pp. £11.95
Plural Modifiers. Gargoyle 2006. 4pp. £2.50
* From a Middle (with Steve McCaffery). Housepress 2nd edn 2003. 28pp. £6
Nothing by Mouth. BookThug reprint 2003. 40pp. £6.50
At Issue. Coach House 2001. 70pp. £8.50
* Fit to Print (with Alan Halsey). Coach House & West House 1998. 64pp. £8.50
The Tongue Moves Talk. Chax & West House 1997. 60pp. £7.50
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