Karen Mac Cormack

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Karen Mac Cormack


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Karen Mac Cormack (b. 1956) is a contemporary experimental poet. She holds dual British-Canadian citizenship, and lived for many years in Toronto; more recently, she moved to Buffalo, New York, when her husband, the poet Steve McCaffery, was hired by SUNY-Buffalo for the David Gray Chair.

Though she was not directly part of the Language movement, her work shows many affinities with it, in its use of disjunctiveness at a within-sentence and between-sentence level, and in her interest in the interrogation of cultural norms and ideologies through the skeptical reworking of "found" materials and genres. In Fit to Print, for instance, the poems mimic and distort the format and themes of a typical daily newspaper, while in At Issue the poems are q
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Average rating: 3.34 · 38 ratings · 5 reviews · 11 distinct works
Implexures

4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions
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Quirks & Quillets

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The Tongue Moves Talk

3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
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At Issue

3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
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Marine snow

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Fit to Print

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Nothing By Mouth

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Rechelesse Pratticque

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Implexures: Complete Edition

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