The "Blaze of the Poui" unfolds a world as lush and rank as a rain forest, as alluring and lethal as a sea anemone. Mark McMorris writes of the Americas, the Caribbean, and other sites of conquest and colonization, mingling the personal and political, the present and past on pages filled with the language of parting, remembering, promise, and loss.
The "Blaze of the Poui" unfolds a world as lush and rank as a rain forest, as alluring and lethal as a sea anemone. Mark McMorris writes of the Americ...
The Book of Landings brings together the second and third parts of Mark McMorris's visionary trilogy -Auditions for Utopia, ---initiated in Entrepot--and marks two stages in the evolution of the poet's conception of space. The first stage of the collection is the entrepot, a space where disparate vectors of identity congregate, come into conflict, and finally merge into hybrid forms. The poetry follows a trajectory of diaspora, or exile, instigated by conquest, colonialism, wars, and political defeat in the search for Utopia. In The Book of Landings the promised dwelling has been removed from...
The Book of Landings brings together the second and third parts of Mark McMorris's visionary trilogy -Auditions for Utopia, ---initiated in Entrepot--...