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Steve McCabe’s poetry
crackles with an ever-modulating music of obsession, a constant flow of
sudden maxims of revelation, radioed to us from the beyond of art, love,
and freedom. This is poetry that breathes the true spirit of the avante
garde: joyous, exploratory, improvisational, full of pleasure and adventure,
fantasy and insight.
—A.F. Moritz
A new collection of poems by Toronto multidisciplinary artist Steven
McCabe, Hierarchy of Loss explores the concept of negative space.
Wind, dreams, memory, mirrors, night, and touch – all link the poet
with absence. Here is a cinematic landscape where words are erased because,
‘there’s too much moonlight on the page.’ Loss and disappearance
permeate both visible and unseen reality in this collection of new work
from the author of Jawbone.
Steven McCabe is a poet and multidisciplinary artist originally from
the American middle-west now living in Toronto. He is the author of Jawbone
(Ekstasis Editions 2004), Wyatt Earp in Dallas: 1963 (Seraphim
Editions 1995) and Radio Picasso (watershed Books 1999). He has
exhibited works on canvas, paintings on paper, collaborative artworks,
mixed media sculpture, and video. He teaches visual art and creative writing
workshops in both private and public schools.
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