Author Description

In Marine Snow, her fifth collection of poetry, Karen Mac Cormack extends her investigation into sentence effects, particularly the integration of poetic line with prose period. By returning language to a functional mandate this work reveals how meaning emerges in the sites of its production. These poems fuse a propositional language with stanzaic configurations to explore phenomenological implications in perception as mediated through both the orthodox and the errant trajectories of language, writing, and space.