Shape Your Eyes by Shutting Them
Author(s)
McCutcheon, Mark A.
Version
PublishedLanguage
EnglishAbstract
In this inventive collection of poems, McCutcheon engages in sophisticated literary play and deploys the Surrealist practices of juxtaposition, cut-up, and defamiliarization. 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.
Keywords
Canadian literature; Canadian poetry; Surrealism; contemporary poetry; anxiety; climate crisis; climate change; anthropocene; alienation; academia; familyWebshop link
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07Z1 ...ISBN
9781771992695, 9781771992701, 9781771992718Publisher
Athabasca University PressPublisher website
http://www.aupress.ca/Publication date and place
Canada, 2019-10-10Classification
Poetry by individual poets