whereabouts

Edward Carson's poetry explores the emotional, contradictory intelligence of the heart and mind, navigating the tight spaces between thinking and language, beauty and perception, love, and the polemics of self and other. "Whereabouts" (or the mapmaker's dilemma) playfully confronts the quandaries of personal navigation, while "Hereabouts" (in fourteen scans) advances a poetry of rhizomic communication capturing networks of thought and feeling that spring from conflict and caress.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 02 August 2021
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press

Edward Carson's book of poems, "In the Poem of the World," explores the emotional and intellectual complexities of the heart and mind. The book is divided into three interrelated segments: "Whereabouts," "Powerfully," and "Hereabouts." "Whereabouts" charts the tight emotional spaces between thinking and language, beauty and perception, love and the polemics of self and other. It takes on cartographic distortions and dynamics of the map metaphor, playfully confronting the quandaries of personal navigation when the wants and needs of the esemplastic mind are forever devising new places to be. "Powerfully" explores the brain, its neurons, and serpentine synaptic connections, advancing a poetry of rhizomic communication capturing networks of thought and feeling that spring from both conflict and caress. "Hereabouts" (in fourteen scans) 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.

Dimension: 191 x 127 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780228006329