Map of Faring, A. Free Verse Editions |
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| Author:
| Riley, Peter |
| Editor:
| Thompson, Jon |
| Series title: | Free Verse Editions Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-281-07973-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2005 |
| Publisher: | Parlor Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $25.08 |
Book Description:
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A Map of Faring holds three major poetical sequences meditating on particular places: an English wood, a Transylvanian valley, and a house in southern France, as well as poems of places in Austria, Germany, The Czech Republic, Italy, Spain and elsewhere. In these, landscape and encounters become the vocabulary of a personal exploration of senses of time and passage, and the fate of small localities in the spread of global forces. A Map of Faring reckons with acts large and small, that...
More DescriptionA Map of Faring holds three major poetical sequences meditating on particular places: an English wood, a Transylvanian valley, and a house in southern France, as well as poems of places in Austria, Germany, The Czech Republic, Italy, Spain and elsewhere. In these, landscape and encounters become the vocabulary of a personal exploration of senses of time and passage, and the fate of small localities in the spread of global forces. A Map of Faring reckons with acts large and small, that are transforming the world, even as it searches to understand, within that reckoning, the possible regenerative presence of art.