Download or read book Shape Your Eyes by Shutting Them written by Mark A. McCutcheon and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.