Shape your eyes by shutting them : : poems / / Mark A. McCutcheon.

• Superior document: Mingling voices
• VerfasserIn: McCutcheon, Mark A., 1972-
• Place / Publishing House: Edmonton, Alberta : : Athabasca University Press,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Mingling voices.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (84 pages).

"In this inventive collection of poems, McCutcheon engages in sophisticated literary play and deploys the Surrealist practices of juxtaposition. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Shadows the words -- Three votive candles -- Fifty more -- Here is where was -- Second of the night -- No family one pictures -- Grand parenthesis -- Where the area code ends -- Found and lost -- Take forever just a minute -- A sound outside the house -- A pantoum to smash pandas -- Anthropocene obscene as orange -- Room for one more -- The leaf is not the line -- Why the blue whale risked its neck -- Mab and Burke -- L'âme de l'homme est fait du papier -- Voyager 2, thinking, types things -- Lunar sonata -- Baby Bee explains Jupiter's Great Red Spot -- Whose eyes are shut in every photo -- Heaven help the roses -- Forgive me Cathy for -- Ever -- The lineaments -- New patriot love -- You and you kiss the knife moon -- Grosvenor Road -- Shape your eyes by shutting them -- The space of one paragraph -- Was I asleep? -- The Pit of Carkoon -- Raver in the bathroom -- Like opening your refrigerator door -- This time the subway -- Speeches for Francis Bacon's Three Studies for Figures at The Base of a Crucifixion -- Nightmares in the university's ruins -- Stranger music -- Ecstasy, Euphrasia -- In Gwen MacEwen Park -- Cash paradise -- Moon of a far planet -- Fuseli in Peru -- Notes -- Acknowledgements and publication credits.