Tale Light: New & Selected Poems 1984 - 2009 - Softcover

Julie Joosten

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1897388543 ISBN 13: 9781897388549

Publisher: Book*hug Press, 2010

Synopsis

Shortlisted for the 2014 Governor General's Award for Poetry Shortlisted for the 2014 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for Poetry. Moving from the Enlightenment science of natural history to the contemporary science of global warming, Light Light is a provocative engagement with the technologies and languages that shape discourses of knowing. It bridges the histories of botany, empire, and mind to take up the claim of ""objectivity"" as the dissolution of a discrete self and thus explores the mind's movement toward and with the world. The poems in Light Light range from the epigrammatic to the experimental, from the narrative to the lyric, consistently exploring the way language captures the undulation of a mind's working, how that rhythm becomes the embodiment of thought, and how that embodiment forms a politics engaged with the environment and its increasing alterations.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Book*hug Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1897388543
• ISBN 13: 9781897388549
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120