Road atlas : prose & other poems / by Campbell McGrath.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGrath, Campbell, 1962-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

x, 74 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Hopewell, N.J. : Ecco Press, 1999.

Summary:

Following Spring Comes to Chicago--winner of the prestigious Kingsley Tufts Prize--Campbell McGrath's newest collection goes on the road to chart a poetics of place and everyday experience. Set in diverse and finely observed landscapes from Brazil to Manitoba, Las Vegas to McGrath's home in Miami Beach, the poems in Road Atlas range thematically from a cultural critique of Jimmy Buffett to a discussion of cartoon epistemology with a skeptical child to an imaginary journey from Campbell, Florida, to McGrath, Alaska.

With its careful mix of image and narrative, as well as its sculptural prose variations, Road Atlas seeks to stretch the form of the contemporary poem to encompass travel writing, flash fiction, and lyric meditations upon the loneliness of the road, the joys of fatherhood, and the nature of poetry itself.

Contents:

The Prose Poem 1

Plums 5

Baker, California 7

Yogurt & Clementines 10

Praia dos Orixas 11

Port Olry 15

Dinosaurs 16

Rice & Beans 19

El Balserito 20

The Gulf 22

A Dove 24

Sylvia Plath 27

Biscayne Boulevard 29

Amsterdam 33

Albergo Santa Restituta 36

Mountainair, New Mexico 37

Hunger 38

A Letter to James Wright 45

Manitoba 53

Las Vegas 54

Elvis Impersonators' Day, Gulfstream Park 57

Jimmy Buffett 59

Capitalist Poem #42 63

A Map of Dodge County, Wisconsin 64

Four Clouds Like the Irish in Memory 65

Tabernacle, New Jersey 67

The Wreck 70

Campbell McGrath 71.

ISBN:

088001668X

OCLC:

39706825