Carta Marina: A Poem in Three Parts

Description

A vivid, strange, and beautiful account of a year in Sweden, this poem represents the ways in which wildness and monstrousness, dream and terror, coexist forever with constructions of order. Inspired by a medieval map of the same name, the poem weaves the gloom of the author's forgotten past with the pain and pleasures of her present life, creating a treatise on motherhood, marriage, love, forgiveness, reconnection, and abandonment.

Product Details

Price

$16.00 $14.88

Publisher

Wings Press (TX)

Publish Date

April 01, 2009

Pages

Dimensions

5.9 X 0.4 X 8.7 inches | 0.35 pounds

Language

English

Type

Paperback

EAN/UPC

9780916727567

BISAC Categories:

American - General

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About the Author

Ann Fisher-Wirth teaches English and environmental studies at the University of Mississippi. She received the Rita Dove Poetry Award and two Poetry Fellowships from the Mississippi Arts Commission. She has also received the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is the author of Blue Windows and Five Terraces. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi.

Reviews

"A breakthrough book from a significant poet." --Booklist
"Passionately and precisely, sensuously and learnedly, Ann Fisher-Wirth's Carta Marina maps the terrain of our earthly fidelities and losses, calling them forth in all their varying shapes and flavors, by name. These poems summon abundance, recording in their pages a fully inhabited, fully inhabitable world." --Jane Hirshfield, award-winning poet

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