Poetry. In AT ISSUE, Toronto author Mac Cormack examines the format and contents of the magazine, reflecting the experience of reading that format within a critical agenda. Utilizing the vocabulary and spelling found in magazines of a diverse nature, this series of poems is full of interruptions and syntactical disarrangements. However, AT ISSUE also includes non-magazine poems as a variant measure of linguistic origin, and an alternative to 'mined' creativity. "repetition not a closure/ or love of love of/ hold me to the letters// we maximize nothing beyond pleasure"-(from "love poem's alibi") Mac Cormack is the author of nine other books, including THE TONGUE MOVES TALK, QUIRKS & QUILLETS, and the related 'newspaper' collaboration FIT TO PRINT (with Alan Halsey), all available at SPD.

Author City: BUFFALO, NY USA

Born in Luanshya, Zambia, Karen Mac Cormack's most recent book is the polybiography IMPLEXURES (COMPLETE EDITION), published by Chax Press and West House Books in 2008. Her poetry appears in various national and international anthologies including PRISMATIC PUBLICS, Another Language, and Out of Everywhere. Her work is also the subject of numerous essays, most recently in ANTIPHONIES: ESSAYS ON WOMEN'S EXPERIMENTAL POETRIES IN CANADA (The Gig, 2008). Selections of her poetry have been translated into French, Portuguese, Swedish, and Norwegian. A resident of Toronto for many years she currently lives in the USA where she teaches at the State University of New York at Buffalo.