Research Catalog

Title

The black reeds : poems / by Mark McMorris.

Author

McMorris, Mark.

Publication

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Description

x, 77 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

• The Black Reeds takes up poetry as an intersection of the history of the individual with a history and geography of migrations understood in multiple senses, as the movement of lyric poetry through the changing syntax, rhythms, inflections, and vocabulary of English, as the movement of peoples both actual and imagined across territory and in time, and as the movement of readers among the expeditions of a book into experimental and unfamiliar terrain.
• The metaphor that might say something about the form of the book is that of a funnel made out of time and passing through the events that it temporarily brings into strange association. The meaning of black, as a color that is not white and as a political category with its furious torment, wavers between the reeds and syllables of this funnel, as both desire and predicament.

Series Statement

Contemporary poetry series

Uniform Title

Contemporary poetry series (University of Georgia Press)

Subjects

• Ocean travel > Poetry
• Sea poetry, American
• Travel > Poetry
• Voyages and travels > Poetry

Contents

The Sentences -- Tree without Color -- And the cane field is on fire -- Crowds pressed in on us -- They breathe into our ear -- Agon -- Landings -- The Blue Rushes -- Salt and Lotos -- Evening -- Song Mr. Poet -- Pastoral -- Models for the Race -- Landed Gaps -- My Circle Just -- The Near Speech -- Licinus -- Too far along -- Peninsula, Sea Brush -- Invigorated Sight -- More Than Once in Caves -- Palm by the letter -- Betimes -- Separate Coasts -- Summing up -- Elegy for Love -- Inscriptions on the Whale Flank -- Space between Us.

ISBN

0820318736 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

96019306

OCLC

ocm34584075

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries