{"product_id":"maps-and-transcripts-of-the-ordinary-world-poems-9781571315021","title":"Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKathryn Cowles's \u003ci\u003eMaps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection that lingers in memory and place, in the unsettled distance between reality and its transcriptions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I take seven photographs turning \/ in a circle, a panorama, \/ but how will I place them hanging \/ on a wall back home? Something already slipping,\" Cowles writes. These poems surround a central question: how much of a moment is captured by the mechanisms we use to describe it? How much of the shore, the birds, the feeling? In pursuit of an answer, Cowles leads readers through a sequence of distinct landscapes (islands, plains, mountains, oceans) with both traditional lyricism and the playful refrains of a speaker fixated on the dilemma of representation. \"Holy photograph. Holy actual world. Equal sign equal sign equal sign.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World\u003c\/i\u003e both puzzles over and embraces the valley between literature and lived experience. Along the way, Cowles's language is light but recursive, rotating around beloved places: a new house, a garden, a seemingly endless plane ride, a battery-operated spit of lamb, a photograph of a battery-operated spit of lamb, dogs, Sue, Ohio. This collection defamiliarizes and refamiliarizes the \"actual world,\" while navigating toward the clear and substantial stuff of living.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArresting on both visual and textual levels, \u003ci\u003eMaps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World\u003c\/i\u003e is executed with the utmost intelligence, humility, and tenderness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/10\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571315021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/17\/2020 pg. 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2020 pg. 92\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kathryn Cowles","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36660153155740,"sku":"9781571315021","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_2bae3bfd-9a39-4878-a7db-4541e559c628.jpg?v=1603896211","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/maps-and-transcripts-of-the-ordinary-world-poems-9781571315021","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}