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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823500303321

Autore

McMorris Mark

Titolo

The book of landings / / Mark McMorris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8195-7634-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Wesleyan Poetry

Disciplina

811/.54

Soggetti

Caribbean Area Poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; The Book of Landings; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments                      ; The Fragility of Writing: Notes on a Trilogy                                                   ; Fragments from a Time before This                                        ; I        ; 12 Rectangles                    ; Line Drawings                    ; The Book of Landing                          ; II         ; Pidgin Geometry                      ; III          ; While We're Waiting                          ; City of Palimpsests

I. PLANTATION                    Gun Carriage at Old Fort                               ; The Great House in Various Light                                       ; Birds as More Than Metaphor                                  ; Letters to Michael                         ; Dear Michael (26)                        ; Artifact of Beginnings                             ; Practical Green Table                            ; Worksong               ; Paradise and Plantation                              ; Untitled One                   ; Untitled Two

And this shall seldom chance                                   Letters to Michael                         ; Dear Michael (21)                        ; II. MARRAKECH                    ; The Drums of Marrakech                             ; Letters to Michael                         ; Dear Michael (22)                        ; Dear Michael (23)                        ; Records              ; III. BARCELONA                     ; Barcelona Series                       ; IV. LAST LETTERS; Letters to Michael                         ; Dear Michael (24)

Dear Michael (25)                        The Last City

Sommario/riassunto

Brings together the second and third parts of Mark McMorris's



"Auditions for Utopia" trilogy. Marks two stages in the evolution of the poet's conception of space, with poetry following a trajectory of diaspora, or exile, instigated by conquest, colonialism, wars, and political defeat, which is to say the search for Utopia.