Here
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (652 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1564783383 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 63 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The poem's interest instead is in statement(s) of situation, in "the path traced by a moving point." First published by Dalkey Archive Press in 1994, now available again.. C. S. Giscombe's "Here" is a long, single poem that takes place in a progression of three settings, three unlikely locations: the edges of the urban south, the edges--just beyond and just within the city--of rural Ohio, and the places where upstate New York forms the border with Canada, "the next country." "Here" is racial in its knowledge and acknowledgment of the great geographic archetype, the journey north; yet the work's nature denies the closure of destination
He has also published a memoir entitled Into and Out of Dislocation. C. S. . He is the editor of Mixed Blood, a poetry journal, and teaches at the University of California at Berkeley. Giscombe is the author of several books of poetry, including Giscome Road and Here, both of which are available from Dalkey Archive Press
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. His concern with African American experience is all the more effective because he so well evokes his individual consciousness. From Publishers Weekly Here is a powerful, understated meditation on place, ancestry and time. The second, longest poem, "Blue Hole, Flood Waters, Little Miami River," begins less well. Establishing themes in the first poem (ironically titled after an old railway slogan, "Look Ahead-Look South"), Giscombe looks back to Birmingham, Ala., from a vantage point in the North, recalling journeys there at 12 and 28 for the funerals of his grandparents. . There are vivid bits, like the perception of a "big eyed blank-face dash bolted to the firewall" of the poet's father's car,