Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World: Poems

by Kathryn Cowles

Book Overview

Kathryn Cowles's Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World is a collection that lingers in memory and place, in the unsettled distance between reality and its transcriptions.

"I take seven photographs turning / in a circle, a panorama, / but how will I place them hanging / on a wall back home? Something already slipping," Cowles writes. These poems surround a central question: how much of a moment is captured by the mechanisms...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571315020
• ISBN13: 9781571315021
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.4"