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Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love

Keith S. Wilson
4.12/5 (150 ratings)
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Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love is a collection whose poems approach family, politics, and romance, often through the lens of space: the vagaries of a relationship full of wonder and coldness, separation and exploration. There is the sense of the speaker as a cartographer of familiar spaces, of land he has never left or relationships that have stayed with him for years, and always with the newness of an alien or stranger. Acutely attuned to the heritage of Greco-Roman myth, Wilson writes through characters such as the Basilisk and the Minotaur, emphasizing the intense loneliness these characters experience from their uniqueness. For the racially ambiguous speaker of these poems, who is both black and not black, who has lived between the American South and the Midwest, there are no easy answers. From the fields of Kentucky to the pigeon coops of Chicago, identities and locations blur―the pastoral bleeds into the Afrofuturist, black into white and back again.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
80 pages
Publication:
2019
Publisher:
Copper Canyon Press
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1556595611
ISBN13:
9781556595615
kindle Asin:
B083XNYB1F

Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love

Keith S. Wilson
4.12/5 (150 ratings)
Read Download
Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love is a collection whose poems approach family, politics, and romance, often through the lens of space: the vagaries of a relationship full of wonder and coldness, separation and exploration. There is the sense of the speaker as a cartographer of familiar spaces, of land he has never left or relationships that have stayed with him for years, and always with the newness of an alien or stranger. Acutely attuned to the heritage of Greco-Roman myth, Wilson writes through characters such as the Basilisk and the Minotaur, emphasizing the intense loneliness these characters experience from their uniqueness. For the racially ambiguous speaker of these poems, who is both black and not black, who has lived between the American South and the Midwest, there are no easy answers. From the fields of Kentucky to the pigeon coops of Chicago, identities and locations blur―the pastoral bleeds into the Afrofuturist, black into white and back again.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
80 pages
Publication:
2019
Publisher:
Copper Canyon Press
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1556595611
ISBN13:
9781556595615
kindle Asin:
B083XNYB1F

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