Shape Your Eyes by Shutting Them

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by Mark McCutcheon

In this inventive collection of poems, McCutcheon engages in sophisticated literary play and deploys the Surrealist practices of juxtaposition, cut-up, and defamiliarization. Moving from eroticism to the macabre and from transformative quotation to the individual idiom, Shape Your Eyes by Shutting Them explores intertextuality in poetry by challenging the cultural tradition of seeing quotation as derivative.

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Publisher: Athabasca University Press
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About the Author

Mark McCutcheon is Professor of Literary Studies with Athabasca University's Centre for Humanities and the MA in Interdisciplinary Studies program.