Whereabouts / Edward Carson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carson, Edward, 1948- author.

Series:

Hugh MacLennan poetry series

The Hugh MacLennan poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 80 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"In this riddling and seeking book of poems, Edward Carson navigates the emotional, often contradictory intelligence of the heart and mind. In three interrelated segments, whereabouts powerfully charts the tight emotional spaces between thinking and language, beauty and perception, love and the polemics of self and other. Taking on cartographic distortions and dynamics of the map metaphor, "thereabouts (or the mapmaker's dilemma)" playfully confronts the quandaries of personal navigation when the wants and needs of the esemplastic mind are forever devising new places to be. Exploring the brain, its neurons, and serpentine synaptic connections, "hereabouts (in fourteen scans)" advances a poetry of rhizomic communication capturing networks of thought and feeling that spring from both conflict and caress. Within a relationship's countless masquerades and revelations, "whereabouts (the lovers' discourse)" invites the reader to eavesdrop on a series of intimate conversations wherein lovers argue and act out their richly populated inner lives, addressing issues of gender, pleasure, communication, control, and sex. "Activated by synaptic metaphor, Edward Carson's whereabouts is love poetry by way of neuroimaging. Embracing the 'harmonics of the brain,' the poet breaks down the world sense by sense, delivering a fever dream that is part map, part destination. whereabouts is a welcome addition to the significant tradition of science poetry." Jim Johnstone, editor of The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Thereabouts (Or the Mapmaker's Dilemma)

In the Poem

Near Or Far

Distortion

Contiguous

A Map Is

Colonizing A

The Brain Is

Mercurial

Thoughts of A

Flirtations

Thermodynamic

Tangents In

Woozy in Love

At the End

Hereabouts (In Fourteen Scans)

Left Lingual Gyrus Occipital Lobe

Right Posterior Parietal Lobe

Left Angular Gyrus Parietal Lobe

Right Lingual Gyrus Occipital Lobe

Ventrointermedial Thalamus

Left Posterior Parietal Lobe

Superior Temporal Gyrus

Left Hippocampus

Ventrolateral Thalamus

Postcentral Gyrus Parietal Lobe

Right Angular Gyrus Parietal Lobe

Right Anterior Cingulate Gyrus

Right Amygdala

Medial Prefrontal Cortex

Whereabouts (The Lovers' Discourse)

Prologue: Amare Chronos Kairos Aevum

Force That Makes Up in Time What It Loses in Speed

Quantum Entanglements

All By Myself Don't Want To Be All By Myself

No One Belongs Here More Than You

When Women Were Birds

Mean Free Path

Rarely Often Always Never Known

Speak Low If You Speak Love

Embodied Subject and Fragmented Object

Whose Body Is This

Love Is A Difficult Cause To Demonstrate

Absence in Shaping Spatial Presence

A Rhetoric of Semblance

Petite Sonatine Cantique

Rhetorical Pawns in Unwinnable Arguments

Swift Answer Slow Silence

After An Argument the Dark Mind of Night

No One Says This To You But Me

Claims Counterclaims

Infinite Regress

Infinite Meadow

She Knows He Thinks He Knows Who She Is

Alternate Voices Passing Between Us

Through Skillful Omission of Critical Facts

A Man Like A Woman Like A Man

Asymmetrical Allure With Someone Else

X Inactive Specific Transcript

Neither Noise Nor Signal

The Empty Glance of A Knowing Observer

Before Behind Between Above Below

A Teetering Tongue Close By

Listen Listen Listen

In the Way That Most of the Wind Happens

Romance of A Mistaken Intention

Turning To Affect

All of Me Why Not Take All of Me

Neither Proving You Less Wanted Nor Less Dear

Love Me Or Leave Me

Eloquence Is Heard But Poetry Is Overheard.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Carson, Edward, 1948- Whereabouts.

ISBN:

9780228006329

0228006325

OCLC:

1201661406