DOWNE, Lise. The Soft Signature. Toronto: ECW Press, 1997. First Edition. Trade paperback. 214x140mm. 95pp. Almost Fine.

Slight browning to the outer extremities of the wrappers, otherwise fine.

"Few writers in Canada demonstrate Lise Downe's insight into the status and potential of language as someting other than a tool. Here is an astonishing repudiation of the instrumental drudgery of writing and the challenge offered to the reader is both explicit and profound. The poems here demand a shared encounter, insisting on a hermeneutic compact between reader and writer at the point of meaning's becoming." --Steve McCaffery.