A Provisional Map of the Lost Continent charts a territory built of speculative histories, indeterminate landscapes, and mock narratives, all of them at the threshold linking exterior and interior worlds. Their logic is highly grammatical and slyly confounding, perfectly clear and drawn from dream. It is here, “between / what is occluded and what has elapsed,” that Mahrer’s ambiguous, disordered subjects begin their journeys.
Gregory Mahrer's poems have been published in The New England Review, The Indiana Review, Green Mountains Review, Volt, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. He lives and works in rural northern California and Baja California Sur, Mexico.
John Yau is a poet and critic who lives in New York City. He has published more than 50 books of poetry, artists’ books, fiction, and
art criticism.