{"product_id":"negro-mountain-9780226829715","title":"Negro Mountain","description":"\u003cb\u003eA cross-genre poetry collection that troubles the idea of poetic voice while considering history, biology, the shamanistic, and the shapes of racial memory.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the final section of \u003ci\u003eNegro Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, C. S. Giscombe writes, \"Negro Mountain--the summit of which is the highest point in Pennsylvania--is a default, a way among others to think about the Commonwealth.\" Named for an \"incident\" in which a Black man was killed while fighting on the side of white enslavers against Indigenous peoples in the eighteenth century, this mountain has a shadow presence throughout this collection; it appears, often indirectly, in accounts of visions, reimaginings of geography, testimonies about the \"natural\" world, and speculations and observations about race, sexuality, and monstrosity. These poems address location, but Giscombe--who worked for ten years in central Pennsylvania--understands location to be a practice, the continual \"action of situating.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book weaves through the ranges of thinking that poetic voice itself might trouble. Addressing a gallery of figures, Giscombe probes their impurities and ambivalences as a way of examining what languages \"count\" or \"don't count\" as poetry. Here, he finds that the idea of poetry is visionary, but also investigatory and exploratory. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226829715\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96","brand":"C. S. Giscombe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43096032510133,"sku":"9780226829715","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_c24b507c-9dd9-48d5-bbc6-5ee9d621643c.jpg?v=1692801119","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/negro-mountain-9780226829715","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}