At Issue

Karen Mac Cormack

ISBN 10: 1552450937 / ISBN 13: 9781552450932

Published by Coach House Books, CA, 1997

About this Item

Karen Mac Cormack's At Issue is a sequel of sorts to Fit to Print (also from Coach House Books), her collaborative poetic examination of the newspaper with British poet Alan Halsey. In At Issue, Mac Cormack examines the format and contents of the lifestyle magazine.Utilizing the vocabulary and spelling found in Vogue (both British and American versions), Self (a health/fitness magazine geared to female readership) and Prevention (another health magazine), the poems in At Issue reflect and refract the experience of reading these magazines. (Mac Cormack notes that an interesting if frightening fact is that there are fewer typos in Vogue than in most scholarly books published in North America.) As an alternative to the 'mined' creativity of the magazine poems, Mac Cormack also includes a number of texts from other sources.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: At Issue
• Publisher: Coach House Books, CA
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1552450937
• ISBN 13: 9781552450932
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 127 grams

About this title

Synopsis

Karen Mac Cormack's At Issue is a sequel of sorts to Fit to Print (also from Coach House Books), her collaborative poetic examination of the newspaper with British poet Alan Halsey. In At Issue, Mac Cormack examines the format and contents of the lifestyle magazine.

Utilizing the vocabulary and spelling found in Vogue (both British and American versions), Self (a health/fitness magazine geared to female readership) and Prevention (another health magazine), the poems in At Issue reflect and refract the experience of reading these magazines. (Mac Cormack notes that an interesting – if frightening – fact is that there are fewer typos in Vogue than in most scholarly books published in North America.) As an alternative to the 'mined' creativity of the magazine poems, Mac Cormack also includes a number of texts from other sources.

About the Author

Karen Mac Cormack is the author of eight previous books of poetry, including Quirks and Quillets, Marine Snow, and The Tongue Moves Talk. Born in Zambia, she is based in Toronto.