The book of landings / Mark McMorris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McMorris, Mark, author.

Series:

Wesleyan poetry

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xviii, 201 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2016]

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.

Contents:

Fragments from a Time before This

I

12 Rectangles 5

Line Drawings 25

The Book of Landing 63

II

Pidgin Geometry 83

III

While We're Waiting 105

City of Palimpsests

I Plantation

Gun Carriage at Old Fort 117

The Great House in Various Light 119

Birds as More Than Metaphor 138

Letters to Michael

Dear Michael (26) 140

Artifact of Beginnings 141

Practical Green Table 142

Worksong 143

Paradise and Plantation 144

Untitled One 145

Untitled Two 146

And this shall seldom chance 147

Dear Michael (21) 149

II Marrakech

The Drums of Marrakech 153

Dear Michael (22) 169

Dear Michael (23) 170

Records 171

III Barcelona

Barcelona Series 175

IV Last Letters

Dear Michael (24) 197

Dear Michael (25) 199

The Last City 200.

ISBN:

9780819576330

0819576336

OCLC:

923650702