rimertown
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21st century american literature
21st century american poetry
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american literature
american poetry
american south
Author_Laura Walker
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farm life
geographies
home
human relationships
image
leaving
maps
memory
natural landscape
natural settings
passage of time
peopled landscape
physical world
poems
poetic
prose poems
returning
rural life
soldiers and war
southern hometown
southern life
stories
vernacular
voice
wilderness
Product details
- ISBN 9780520254602
- Weight: 136g
- Dimensions: 152 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 08 Apr 2008
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A poetic charting of Laura Walker's rural, southern hometown, "Rimertown: An Atlas" delves into the startling landscapes created by the passage of time through people and through place; it is an atlas born of image and voice. Composed of four interwoven strands - a collection of "maps," a collection of "stories," a series of vernacular prose poems, and a fractured narrative - the volume explores various geographies: of the physical world, of the intersection of natural and peopled landscapes, of the passage of time, of leaving and returning, of human relationships, of soldiers and war. Walker asks: how is "home" carried in memory, in landscape, in story, in time? Her poems break and merge, stitching and fragmenting narrative, syntax, and image as they push toward their own geography, "a fever doll, tapered song/ engineered into dusk/ hold the watery stream, its buck and clanging."
Laura Walker teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University and UC Berkeley Extension. She is author of swarm lure.
