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work_v76243nwhnbnth5i7gpnn6n56u	Shane Alcobia-Murphy	"My Cleverly Dead and Vertical Audience": Medbh McGuckian's "Difficult" Poetry	2012.0	16	.pdf	application/pdf	7776	575	74	While one cannot deny that McGuckian's poetry is often difficult to understand, critics have of late developed different strategies to enable a reader's appreciation of the thematic and stylistic richness of her verse. Before constructing her poetic texts, McGuckian reads a number of biographical studies, critical works or diaries by other authors, and keeps a record "house" in a McGuckian poem is, in the words of the poet, "probably the poem By selecting, modifying and juxtaposing quotations to form a poetic text, McGuckian engages in a form of "appropriative writing." Practitioners of the genre The reader is aware from the outset that each segment is a quotation: Abish declares from the outset that the work is "undertaken in a playful spirit—not actually 'written' but orchestrated."23 Similarly, a poem like John Ashbery's "The Dong poet constructs a new poem from lines taken from other works. McGuckian has read Stevenson's text, and chosen words that speak to her 	./cache/work_v76243nwhnbnth5i7gpnn6n56u.pdf	./txt/work_v76243nwhnbnth5i7gpnn6n56u.txt