{"product_id":"a-provisional-map-of-the-lost-continent-9780823271153","title":"A Provisional Map of the Lost Continent","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I'm not sure exactly how Greg Mahrer catches 'the weak sunlight of old empires' in the prism of this book, but everywhere these poems refract that light into its constituent spectrum: discovery and conquest, migration and homesteading, civilization and ruin, artifacts and absences. These poems somehow capture the exact feel of a consciousness continually hinged between these violent opposites. And somehow their careful, intelligent craftsmanship helps them thrive where they find themselves, 'Stranded between\/what is occluded and what has elapsed.' Indeed, Mahrer makes music, as only a poet can, out of the sound of time as it turns into history.\" -- -Brian Teare author of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven \"With high-wire imagination and hybrid language, A Provisional Map of the Lost Continent surveys a world post-catastrophic, elasticized, semi-mythic yet founded in the real. Scribbling clerks, horse carts, and confectioners coincide with glass towers, climate-caused sea rise, and species extinction. In this book, makings and fracturings become part of one gesture. Gregory Mahrer's continually burning city consumes, it seems, all futures, all lives, and the ember at the center of virtually every sentence is an irreversible, prophetic, and utterly accurate grief.\" -- -Jane Hirshfield \"Gregory Mahrer, who listens carefully to the voices inside him, and does not reject the reports they bring him, full of terrifying and beautiful music, wrote this wise and beautiful book. We would be remiss not to listen to what he has come to tell us.\" -- -John Yau from the foreword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI    Red City         Studies (Graphite and Pollen)       Drift          Ciudad de Oro         Itinerary of Fire        Hinterland         Franciscan Melange        Blackout         Travelogue    The Age of Glass        Whiteout         An Unaddressed Envelope Fills with Snow     Alternation of Flight and Perching       II    Fable          Refrain          Under: Variations        Ciudad de Plata        Vacancy         Chimera         Flurry          En Las Calles de Borges       Inquest at Century's End       Empty Square, Twilight     Corner Plot         Raft          Verge          Colony             III    Understory         A Provisional Map of the Lost Continent     Ciudad de las Manos        Dinner Guests         Ideograph         Icelandia         A Sequence of Knots        Fandango         Defenestration         As in the Letter O        Glossolalia         Accident         Camera Obscura        Apprenticeship        Afterlife","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406144840023,"sku":"9780823271153","price":13.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823271153.jpg?v=1730494681","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-provisional-map-of-the-lost-continent-9780823271153","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}