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Immerse yourself in Kathryn Cowles's enchanting collection, *Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World*. This trade paperback, published by Milkweed Editions in 2020, offers readers a profound exploration of the intimate coexistence of memory and place. Cowles artfully navigates the delicate balance between reality and its representation, making this book a must-have for poetry enthusiasts and lovers of contemporary literature.
In this compelling assortment of poems, Cowles poses essential questions: How much of a moment can we truly capture? Through evocative scenes of islands, plains, mountains, and oceans, her work encapsulates the complexities of human experience. With a blend of lyrical brilliance and playful introspection, she transforms the ordinary into lyrical landscapes that resonate deeply with readers.
Whether you are drawn to the themes of self-discovery, nostalgia, or the intersection of life and art, *Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World* will lead you through diverse emotional terrains. With vivid imagery that recalls beloved places—a new home, a sprawling garden, the thrill of travel—Cowles’s collection invites us to reflect on what it means to live and perceive the world around us.
This striking collection is not just a book; it’s a thought-provoking journey that defamiliarizes and refamiliarizes the 'actual world' we inhabit. Explore the interplay between the visible and the unseen, and enjoy the lyrical craftsmanship that makes this book a standout choice among contemporary poetry.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781571315021 Format: Trade paperback (US) Year: 2020 Publisher: Milkweed Editions.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781571315021
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2020
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Description:
Kathryn Cowles's Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World is a collection that lingers in memory and place, in the unsettled distance between reality and its transcriptions.
"I take seven photographs turning / in a circle, a panorama, / but how will I place them hanging / on a wall back home? Something already slipping," Cowles writes. These poems surround a central question: how much of a moment is captured by the mechanisms we use to describe it? How much of the shore, the birds, the feeling? In pursuit of an answer, Cowles leads readers through a sequence of distinct landscapes (islands, plains, mountains, oceans) with both traditional lyricism and the playful refrains of a speaker fixated on the dilemma of representation. "Holy photograph. Holy actual world. Equal sign equal sign equal sign."
Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World both puzzles over and embraces the valley between literature and lived experience. Along the way, Cowles's language is light but recursive, rotating around beloved places: a new house, a garden, a seemingly endless plane ride, a battery-operated spit of lamb, a photograph of a battery-operated spit of lamb, dogs, Sue, Ohio. This collection defamiliarizes and refamiliarizes the "actual world," while navigating toward the clear and substantial stuff of living.
Arresting on both visual and textual levels, Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World is executed with the utmost intelligence, humility, and tenderness.
In this compelling assortment of poems, Cowles poses essential questions: How much of a moment can we truly capture? Through evocative scenes of islands, plains, mountains, and oceans, her work encapsulates the complexities of human experience. With a blend of lyrical brilliance and playful introspection, she transforms the ordinary into lyrical landscapes that resonate deeply with readers.
Whether you are drawn to the themes of self-discovery, nostalgia, or the intersection of life and art, *Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World* will lead you through diverse emotional terrains. With vivid imagery that recalls beloved places—a new home, a sprawling garden, the thrill of travel—Cowles’s collection invites us to reflect on what it means to live and perceive the world around us.
This striking collection is not just a book; it’s a thought-provoking journey that defamiliarizes and refamiliarizes the 'actual world' we inhabit. Explore the interplay between the visible and the unseen, and enjoy the lyrical craftsmanship that makes this book a standout choice among contemporary poetry.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781571315021 Format: Trade paperback (US) Year: 2020 Publisher: Milkweed Editions.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781571315021
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2020
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Description:
Kathryn Cowles's Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World is a collection that lingers in memory and place, in the unsettled distance between reality and its transcriptions.
"I take seven photographs turning / in a circle, a panorama, / but how will I place them hanging / on a wall back home? Something already slipping," Cowles writes. These poems surround a central question: how much of a moment is captured by the mechanisms we use to describe it? How much of the shore, the birds, the feeling? In pursuit of an answer, Cowles leads readers through a sequence of distinct landscapes (islands, plains, mountains, oceans) with both traditional lyricism and the playful refrains of a speaker fixated on the dilemma of representation. "Holy photograph. Holy actual world. Equal sign equal sign equal sign."
Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World both puzzles over and embraces the valley between literature and lived experience. Along the way, Cowles's language is light but recursive, rotating around beloved places: a new house, a garden, a seemingly endless plane ride, a battery-operated spit of lamb, a photograph of a battery-operated spit of lamb, dogs, Sue, Ohio. This collection defamiliarizes and refamiliarizes the "actual world," while navigating toward the clear and substantial stuff of living.
Arresting on both visual and textual levels, Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World is executed with the utmost intelligence, humility, and tenderness.