Shape Your Eyes by Shutting Them

• Main Author: McCutcheon, Mark A. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Canada Athabasca University Press 2019
• Subjects: Poetry by individual poets; Canadian literature; Canadian poetry; Surrealism; contemporary poetry; anxiety; climate crisis; climate change; anthropocene; alienation; academia; family
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 T...