STRAW CUPID. MacCormack, Karen. Toronto, Nightwood Editions, 1987. 96pp, paper, $8.95, ISBN 0-88971-110-0. Distributed by Nightwood Editions. Box 607, Station "C", Toronto, Ont.M6J 3R9. Adult Reviewed by Pat Bolger Volume 16 Number 1 1988 January Some of the poems in this very attractively produced collection have appeared in literary journals such as Rampike, CV II, and The raddle moon. At times the reader enjoys the tentative satisfaction of near-comprehension in lines like "a reign impaired this mention only. Sunday in the turnpike words ilic ear brailles." Much more often, the struggle is with passages that are truly cryptic: against heat which colour to move to the core in a mine corrugated of duration closed wheel a fiction breaks before corner On this way out. A reference in one of the first poems in the collection to "an opacity linked to the not-known" could apply to almost every line in it! Not recommended for high school libraries. Pat Bolger, Renfrew C.I..Renfrew, Ont.