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Giscome Road

C S Giscombe author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press

Published:16th Apr '98

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Concerned with specific locales in northern Canada named for the 19th-century Jamaican miner and explorer John Robert Giscome, the volume incorporates a variety of historical documents, maps, and dreams, to go "in & further in, " discovering and documenting music, racial dichotomies, sexuality, and the ways in which landscape itself is described.

"Recently, the examination of place has become an important theme in American literature; here it is carried out in verse. Giscombe visits sites in northern Canada named for relative John Robert Giscome, a 19th-century Jamaican miner and explorer. His journey, though, is as much interior as exterior, resulting in poems that are at once meditative and visually stunning." -- Library Journal

ISBN: 9781564781840

Dimensions: 254mm x 190mm x 6mm

Weight: 181g

69 pages