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Poetry Canadian

Fit to Print

by (author) Karen Mac Cormack & Alan Halsey

Publisher
Coach House Books
Initial publish date
Jan 1998
Category
Canadian, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552450321
    Publish Date
    Jan 1998
    List Price
    $16.95

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Description

Fit to Print is a collaborative series of poems whose format on the page is modelled on that most quotidian of reading materials - the newspaper. The writing itself displays a concern with daily events, and news factual and quasi-factual, emphasizing their information overload. Structured on patterns of meaning that foreground linguistic materiality, these poems negotiate the newspaper format to enact a fusion of mass culture with an innovative writing practice.

About the authors

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.

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