This volume brings together selections from Karen Mac Cormack’s poetry publications between 1984-2009: Nothing by Mouth, Straw Cupid, Quill Driver, Quirks & Quillets, Marine Snow, The Tongue Moves Talk, At Issue and Vanity Release. Also included are previously uncollected poems and a selection of new work. Some of the earlier poems appear in revised form.

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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“No one writing in North America today can match Karen Mac Cormack’s exquisite poise, the integrity of her poetic line, her command of verbal nuance, pun, and paragram.” — Marjorie Perloff