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Item Details
Title:
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THE CARTOGRAPHER TRIES TO MAP A WAY TO ZION
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By: |
Kei Miller |
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Electronic book text |
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£9.95 |
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ISBN 10: |
1847774326 |
ISBN 13: |
9781847774323 |
Publisher: |
CARCANET PRESS LTD |
Pub. date: |
30 May, 2014 |
Pages: |
71 |
Description: |
In his new collection, acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller dramatises what happens when one system of knowledge, one method of understanding place and territory, comes up against another. |
Synopsis: |
In this collection, acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller dramatizes what happens when one system of knowledge, one method of understanding place and territory, comes up against another. We watch as the cartographer, used to the scientific methods of assuming control over a place by mapping it, is gradually compelled to recognize--even to envy--a wholly different understanding of place, as he tries to map his way to the rastaman's eternal city of Zion. As the book unfolds the cartographer learns that, on this island of roads that "constrict like throats," every place-name comes freighted with history, and not every place that can be named can be found. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Carcanet Press Ltd |
Prizes: |
Shortlisted for Costa Poetry Award 2014.
Shortlisted for Forward Poetry Prize: Best Collection 2014. |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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