Review of Contemporary Fiction - Softcover

Moody, Rick; Quin, Ann; Flannery, Silas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564783375 ISBN 13: 9781564783370

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr, 2014

Synopsis

C. S. Giscombe's Here is a long, single poem that takes place in a progression of three settings, three unlikely locations: the edges of the urban south, the edges--just beyond and just within the city--of rural Ohio, and the places where upstate New York forms the border with Canada, "the next country." Here is racial in its knowledge and acknowledgment of the great geographic archetype, the journey north; yet the work's nature denies the closure of destination. The poem's interest instead is in statement(s) of situation, in "the path traced by a moving point." First published by Dalkey Archive Press in 1994, now available again.

About this title

About the Author:

C. S. Giscombe is the author of several books of poetry, including Giscome Road and Prairie Style. He has also published a memoir entitled Into and Out of Dislocation; Back Burner, a collection of essays about poetry, color, transportation, cooking, etc., is forthcoming from Dalkey Archive Press. He teaches at the University of California at Berkeley.

Review:

"Giscombe's concise poems--which are always essentially unpredictable--have an odd and vivid beauty. They move in intricately woven patterns (like the candid language of risky dreams), from the emotional depths of the most private places to places post-personal yet not quite public. And they make this journey with elegance, eloquence, wit, knife-sharp observations, and tenderness." --Clarence Major

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1564783375
• ISBN 13: 9781564783370
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176