The Mood Embosser, Louis Cabri's first book of poetry, presents a series of impressions of 1990s social history as it is manifested in the lingering traces of everyday life. In order to address a wide variety of social structures and their attendant moods, these poems deploy a clutch of poetic forms: columns, long poems, the page as a 'field' of interrelated micro-poems, and series all jostle for space between the covers.
In The Mood Embosser, Louis Cabri writes toward chance's margin – the home of the things we don't know – with a pointed humour that pokes and prods among the detritus of culture.
Louis Cabri founded, with Rob Manery, the 'experimental writing group' (Ottawa, 1986-1995), producing literary events that include the ongoing Transparency Machine reading series. Since 1997, he has curated PhillyTalks, a poets' dialogue/newsletter series. Currently he is writing Poetics of Political Economy, a dissertation, and commutes between Calgary and Philadelphia.