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The Book of Landings
Mark McMorris
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Description for The Book of Landings
hardcover. The Book of Landings brings together the second and third parts of the visionary trilogy "Auditions for Utopia"-initiated in Entrepot. The poetry follows a trajectory of diaspora, or exile, instigated by conquest, colonialism, wars, and political defeat in the search for Utopia. In these poems there is only transition: episodes of transit defining Num Pages: 216 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 454.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Wesleyan United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819576330
SKU
V9780819576330
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Ref
99-3
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