Quirks & Quillets

Overview

Karen Mac Cormack's Quirks & Quillets may be her most delightful projects. Her work shows many affinities with language poetry, in its use of disjunctiveness at a withinsentence and betweensentence level, and in her interest in the interrogation of cultural norms and ideologies through the skeptical reworking of "found" materials and genres.

Author Biography

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: Fortyfive Contemporary Poets, Out of Everywhere: Ling