The Book of Landings (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

Exile, or auditions for utopia, in a time before thisThe Book of Landings brings together the second and third parts of Mark McMorris's visionary trilogy "Auditions for Utopia,"―initiated in Entrepôt―and marks two stages in the evolution of the poet's conception of space. The first stage of the collection is the entrepôt, 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 realm of physical geography, and there is only transition―fragmentary episodes of arrival and departure, in transit from one entrepôt to another. These episodes of transit do not only compose a linear sequence only. Instead, they define a space or surface marked by repeated traversals over time―tracings and, importantly, re-tracings, by explorers, conquerors, migrants, merchants, slaves, refugees, and exiles―a city of palimpsests. An online reader's companion will be available at markmcmorris.site.wesleyan.edu. Exile, or auditions for utopia, in a time before this The Book of Landings brings together the second and third parts of Mark McMorris's visionary trilogy "Auditions for Utopia,"initiated in Entreptand marks two stages in the evolution of the poet's conception of space. The first stage of the collection is the entrept, 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 realm of physical geography, and there is only transitionfragmentary episodes of arrival and departure, in transit from one entrept to another. These episodes of transit do not only compose a linear sequence only. Instead, they define a space or surface marked by repeated traversals over timetracings and, importantly, re-tracings, by explorers, conquerors, migrants, merchants, slaves, refugees, and exilesa city of palimpsests. An online reader's companion will be available at markmcmorris.site.wesleyan.edu.

The Book of Landings brings together the second and third parts of Mark McMorris's visionary trilogy "Auditions for Utopia,"—initiated in Entrepôt—and marks two stages in the evolution of the poet's conception of space. The first stage of the collection is the entrepôt, 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 realm of physical geography, and there is only transition—fragmentary episodes of arrival and departure, in transit from one entrepôt to another. These episodes of transit do not only compose a linear sequence only. Instead, they define a space or surface marked by repeated traversals over time—tracings and, importantly, re-tracings, by explorers, conquerors, migrants, merchants, slaves, refugees, and exiles—a city of palimpsests. An online reader's companion will be available at markmcmorris.site.wesleyan.edu.

Brings together the second and third parts of Mark McMorris's "Auditions for Utopia" trilogy. Marks two stages in the evolution of the poet's conception of space, with poetry following a trajectory of diaspora, or exile, instigated by conquest, colonialism, wars, and political defeat, which is to say the search for Utopia The Book of Landings brings together the second and third parts of the visionary trilogy "Auditions for Utopia"-initiated in Entrepot. The poetry follows a trajectory of diaspora, or exile, instigated by conquest, colonialism, wars, and political defeat in the search for Utopia.