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Paperback. Num Pages: 85 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 6. Weight in Grams: 136.
In the poem that opens this career-spanning odyssey, a blind weaver, who is at once a grandmotherly Penelope and a Homeric bard, “maps you home”—home finally, as the concluding poem reveals, to the Swamp Fox-haunted lowlands of Havird’s native South. Along the way, which threads through Hardy’s Wessex, the Greece of Homer and Seferis, and Jack London’s Valley of the Moon, we take our bearings in “elliptical” terrain, as Rosanna Warren describes the typical setting—landscapes through whose gaps emerge the ghosts of memory and myth to engage the living in scenes of infinite moment.
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In the poem that opens this career-spanning odyssey, a blind weaver, who is at once a grandmotherly Penelope and a Homeric bard, “maps you home”—home finally, as the concluding poem reveals, to the Swamp Fox-haunted lowlands of Havird’s native South. Along the way, which threads through Hardy’s Wessex, the Greece of Homer and Seferis, and Jack London’s Valley of the Moon, we take our bearings in “elliptical” terrain, as Rosanna Warren describes the typical setting—landscapes through whose gaps emerge the ghosts of memory and myth to engage the living in scenes of infinite moment.
In Map Home, as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Texas Review Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Huntsville, United States
ISBN
9781933896946
SKU
V9781933896946
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About David Havird
David Havird grew up in Columbia, South Carolina, USA, and studied at the University of South Carolina under James Dickey. He completed his graduate studies at the University of Virginia with a doctoral dissertation on Thomas Hardy. While not a prolific poet, he has published for many years in major journals, having broken into print in 1975 with a poem ... Read more
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