Swamp Isthmus

by Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Book Overview

Swamp Isthmus takes the stripped, lyric voice of Selenography, the first book of Wilkinson's No Volta pentalogy, and confronts a pre-apocalyptic vision of American urban life. Here, the city and forest are one, as are the river and sewer. The ghost and the body are one, and the buildings and the trees, the sidewalks and the switchbacks all fuse. The poems in Swamp Isthmus create the flipside of the pastoral--the urban returns to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939568005
• ISBN13: 9781939568007
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Black Ocean
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 7.4"