The Keyboard Letters acknowledges the infinite variety of combinations of the alphabet that enable our different searches for meaning. As Captain Ahab after Moby Dick, and Salvadore Dali after images with which to arrange his frenetic world, QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM is after the building blocks of language that face the rough weather of North Central Texas and the rougher terrain along a county road. Poetry is a map, a cartography of the Daliesque discovery of America and the Pequodian discovery of the whale, breaking the ship into what can be seen as mathematic formulas. Poetry is a mathematics of language. Poetry after all is a vehicle after a whale. Or maybe poetry is the whale, breaking the Pequod into useable equations of language, which poetry is.
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About the Author:
DIANE GLANCY is professor emerita at Macalester College. Her 2014-15 books are FORT MARION PRISONERS AND THE TRAUMA OF NATIVE EDUCATION, nonfiction, University of Nebraska Press, and REPORT TO THE DEPATMENT OF THE INTERIOR, poetry, University of New Mexico Press, which won the 2016 Willa Award from Women Writers of the West. She also published three novels, UPRISING OF GOATS, ONE OF US, and IRONIC WITNESS, Wipf & Stock. A new collection of poems, THE COLLECTOR OF BODIES, Concern for Syria and the Middle East, was published by Wipf & Stock in 2016. Among her awards are a 2014 Native Writers Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award, an American Book Award, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Her other books and information are listed on her websites: www.dianeglancy.com www.dianeglancy.org
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