| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Wesleyan Poetry |
|
Wesleyan poetry.
|
| Contents |
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) |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
English |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
African diaspora -- Poetry
|
|
African Americans -- Poetry
|
|
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
|
|
African Americans
|
|
African diaspora
|
| Genre/Form |
poetry.
|
|
Poetry
|
|
Poetry.
|
|
Poésie.
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9780819576347 |
|
0819576344 |
|
