This volume brings together selections from Karen Mac Cormack's poetry publications 1984-2009: Nothing by Mouth, Straw Cupid, Quill Driver, Quirks & Quillets, Marine Snow, The Tongue Moves Talk, At Issue and Vanity Release. Also included are previously uncollected poems and a selection of new work. Some of the earlier poems appear inrevised form. No one writing in North America today can match Karen Mac Cormack's exquisite poise, the integrity of her poetic line, her command of verbal nuance, pun, and paragram. Ð Marjorie Perloff | Tale Light by Karen Mac Cormack, Paperback | Indigo Chapters