(P/B) CARTOGRAPHER TRIES TO MAP A WAY TO ZION

Παρουσίαση

In his new collection, acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller dramatises what happens when one system of knowledge, one method of understanding place and territory, comes up against another. We watch as the cartographer, used to the scientific methods of assuming control over a place by mapping it ('I never get involved / with the muddy affairs of land'), is gradually compelled to recognise - even to envy - a wholly different understanding of place, as he tries to map his way to the rastaman's eternal city of Zion. As the book unfolds the cartographer learns that, on this island of roads that 'constrict like throats', every place-name comes freighted with history, and not every place that can be named can be found. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Groundation
The Shrug of Jah
Establishing the Metre
Quashie's Verse
Unsettled
What the Mapmaker Ought to Know
The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion
A Prayer for the Unflummoxed Beaver
Place Name: Me-No-Sen-You-No-Come
A Ghazal for the Tethered Goats
Roads
Place Name: Swamp
For the Croaking Lizards
Place Name: Wait-A-Bit
Place Name: Shotover
Place Name: Corn Puss Gap
Place Name: Half Way Tree
Place Name: Edinburgh Castle
Hymn to the Birds
Filop Plays the Role of Papa Ghede (2010)
Distance
When Considering the Long, Long Journey of 28,000 Rubber Ducks
The Blood Cloths
Place Name: Bloody Bay
For Pat Saunders, West Indian Literature Critic, after her Dream
In Praise of Maps
My Mother's Atlas of Dolls
Place Name: Flog Man
Place Name: Try See
What River Mumma Knows