The book of landings /
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| Author / Creator: | McMorris, Mark, author. |
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| Uniform title: | Poems. Selections |
| Imprint: | Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2016] |
| Description: | xviii, 201 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Wesleyan poetry Wesleyan poetry. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10610899 |
| Summary: | Exile, or auditions for utopia, in a time before this <br> <br> The Book of Landings brings together the second and third parts of Mark McMorris's visionary trilogy "Auditions for Utopia,"?initiated in Entrepôt?and marks two stages in the evolution of the poet's conception of space. The first stage of the collection is the entrepôt, a space where disparate vectors of identity congregate, come into conflict, and finally merge into hybrid forms. The poetry follows a trajectory of diaspora, or exile, instigated by conquest, colonialism, wars, and political defeat in the search for Utopia. In The Book of Landings the promised dwelling has been removed from the realm of physical geography, and there is only transition?fragmentary episodes of arrival and departure, in transit from one entrepôt to another. These episodes of transit do not only compose a linear sequence only. Instead, they define a space or surface marked by repeated traversals over time?tracings and, importantly, re-tracings, by explorers, conquerors, migrants, merchants, slaves, refugees, and exiles?a city of palimpsests. An online reader's companion will be available at markmcmorris.site.wesleyan.edu. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 201 pages ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780819576330 0819576336 9780819576347 |
