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Whereabouts

Whereabouts

Carson, Edward

Paperback

Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry

General Poetry

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ISBN10: 0228006325
ISBN13: 9780228006329
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Jul 1 2021
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.40
Language: English

in the poem / of the world / there once / was a map / of the map / composed in / the likeness / of a poem

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.

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