Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love Keith S. Wilson

Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love

Author: Keith S. Wilson
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Book Title
Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love
Author
Keith S. Wilson
ISBN
9781556595615
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.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Keith S. WilsonPublisher: Copper Canyon PressPublished: 05/21/2019ISBN: 9781556595615Pages: 80Weight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30dReview Citations: Publishers Weekly 03/18/2019
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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Keith S. Wilson
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 05/21/2019
ISBN: 9781556595615
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 03/18/2019
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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Keith S. Wilson
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 05/21/2019
ISBN: 9781556595615
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 03/18/2019