Fit to Print
- Publisher
- Coach House Books
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1998
- Category
- Canadian, General
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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.