A Change of Maps

by Carolyne Wright

"Formally elegant, thematically intelligent, urgent and thoughtful, A Change of Maps traverses the American landscape--its primal beauty and human diminishment--and explores the tensions in the nature of this country, its mix of cultures, and its losses both national and personal. In these brilliant and intuitive poems, Carolyne Wright reflects on love and independence, love and work, choices made in youth and the larger awarenesses that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0976211432
• ISBN13: 9780976211433
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Lost Horse Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 16 years and up

Customer Reviews

ACCURACY, SPONTANEITY & MYSTERY...

Carolyne Wright is a brilliant poet. She touches the geography of the soul with her poems: "Under the Sign of Cancer," Another Look at Albion on the Rock," "A reply to Storms in New Orleans," "A Return to Sender" and "Cult Hero." They are replete with cerebral and cultural references that leave indelible images in the mind of the reader. A Change of Maps proves that Carolyn follows Elizabeth Bishop's three admirable qualities of a poet: Accuracy, spontaneity and mystery. Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose and Letters (Library of America)

Finding Signposts

Carolyne Wright's journey through nearly four decades shows that the past is often a world that resists disclosure, and yet the fact is less a fact about the past than a fact about our ability to find signposts among contingent scenarios. Wright has this ability; which is less a concession to the spell of technique (which she owns) than a kind of knowledge about poetry's secret sway and coterie wisdom and therefore of abiding interest to poetry's serious readers--be they ever so few--who know that the intramural is what we used to call the universal, but know also that that is no come-down but a field promotion fitting for the lean hereafter.

Examines the power of travel, destiny, love and independence

The latest poetry collection by award-winning author and poet Carolyne Wright, A Change of Maps examines the power of travel, destiny, love and independence, as well as what it means to live in separate worlds and experience the clash of cultures. The free-verse conveys a bright and fresh approach to the challenges of destiny, in this lively and boldly enlightening compilation. "The Ice-Climber": A single climber, making his way / handhold by handhold over the blue / labial folds of the glacier. // A man roped only to himself / under a sky closing down, breaking the first rule of avalanche weather. / Never climb on ice alone. // "He's either crazy," you whispered, / "or extremely good." / Your broken climber's trepidation. / Who else would train / for the North Face of the Eiger?