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- Title
- Cartography and Walking
- Author
- Dickinson, Adam
- Publisher
- Brick Books
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1894078225
- ISBN 13
- 9781894078221
- Edition
- First Edition.
Without you, I have taken to drawing maps on the backs of photographs. On the coast in a raincoat your smile has been dented by a lake, the fluting arms of rivers have made your shoulders look like the bark of birches. from Cartographer
In Cartography and Walking, Adam Dickinson charts his own listening -- an acute listening of eye and ear, a listening with both body and mind. Cartography is more than a metaphor for him, it's a way of being. It is how we dwell in the world, and how intimacy enriches such dwelling. Yet cartography is the presiding metaphor, the structure of this book; in giving it such a place, Dickinson reminds the reader of that very human impulse to plot, to imagine. Each poem is itself a kind of mapping, through language and sound, through minute observation, until land, love, and everyday life are given new embodiment, are newly discovered, and a reader finds new countries in strangely familiar settings.
There is a generous, ingenious listening in Adam Dickinson's Cartography and Walking -- bats, houses, bears, killdeer, honey kept under the sink, atlases open on a floor. The things seem to become themselves in this hearing. The world the ear holds in these poems is a good place to stand. -- Tim Lilburn
The supple voice in Adam Dickinson's poetry distills the complexities of emotion and intellect into a clarity of phrasing and metaphor. One hopes for readers who listen half as carefully to the subtleties of his poetry as he listens to the world he evokes. For Adam Dickinson, cartography provides the imaginative contour lines for mapping the features of a colloquy between human experience and the natural world, a world at once familiar and strange, that we call home. -- Ross Leckie
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About the Author
Adam Dickinson was born in Bracebridge, Ontario. He is currently living in Edmonton, Alberta, where he is pursuing graduate studies in English, and is the co-founder and coordinator of The Olive chapbook publication and poetry reading series. An earlier version of Cartography and Walking won the 1999 Alfred G. Bailey Prize from the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick. Cartography and Walking is his first book.
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