Crop:

Poetry. "From insecticide to plastic heels, no one has explored the disturbing intimacies between persons and things that arise in a system of exploited labor with as much insight as Yedda Morrison. Addressed to a world in which everything is brutally functionalized, and in which `There is not, nor has there ever been a genderless sale,' her poetry unflinchingly confronts the violence behind the production of the sweet. One of the most original and aesthetically powerful books I have read in years"--Sianne Ngai. "From the actual valleys of Northern California to Installation Body-Machine Art, Morrison's writing is an overtly staged poetry; topicality is given the tight squeeze in order to counter a full re-absorption into `proper' field designations--journalism, art criticism, programmatic politics, etc. These poems don't just twizzle their `localities'--they converge on them to move them"--Rodrigo Toscano.

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Montreal-based writer and visual artist Yedda Morrison celebrated the publication of Girl Scout Nation (Displaced Press, 2008). Her other books include; My Pocket Park (Dusie Press, 2007), and Crop (Kelsey Street Press, 2003). Morrison has exhibited her visual work in the United States and Canada, and is represented by Republic Gallery in Vancouver, BC.