{"product_id":"maps-9781556595233","title":"Maps","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Freeman''s first poetry collection charts the impact of place on human experience. In Beirut, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Rome, and the foothills of a childhood hometown, Freeman navigates legacies of ruin and construction, illness and memory. Warm, mournful, and distinctly urban, \u003cem\u003eMaps\u003c\/em\u003e offers a compassionate perspective from the experience of one American embroiled in empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom \"You Are Here:\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe city grinds\u003cbr\u003eits molars at night, carefully mined\u003cbr\u003eexplosions boring cavities beneath\u003cbr\u003eManhattan, while other lines\u003cbr\u003eride all hours in yellow light, gliding\u003cbr\u003eto stops at the zebra-painted beam\u003cbr\u003ehalfway down each platform,\u003cbr\u003econductor always pointing up, as if\u003cbr\u003eto say, yes, you are here.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"At the intersection of art and heart, this magnificent sheaf of voyages leads us through the di fficult and picturesque atlas of a life.... This is an enduring and rapturous account of a life's journey to plumb the depths of the known in order to reveal the hidden and unknown.\" D.A. Powell\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"What is mapped here, in John Freeman's exquisite and robust poetry debut, are the territories of loss, pain, violence, and reckoning that make up a life. And also those of love, remembrance, and unabashed passion that make that same life livable. \u003cem\u003eMaps\u003c\/em\u003e is a consolation and a delight.\" Tracy K. Smith\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"John Freeman's astonishing book of poems shows us first an America that could once and sometimes still be experienced in a vacuum, removed from the brutal struggles that are the daily life of much of the world. Then he takes us into that world, where human tenderness is martyred and buried, day after day. In Freeman's hands the most minimal scenes, the smallest gestures, record our persistence and fragility. Disconsolate, loving, burdened by memory, undeceived but somehow still doggedly hopeful, these poems help us to see a world we're just beginning to map.\" Mark Doty\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Freeman\u003c\/strong\u003e is an American writer and literary critic. A graduate of Swarthmore College, Freeman is the editor of \u003cem\u003eFreeman's\u003c\/em\u003e, a literary biannual, and author of two books of nonfiction, \u003cem\u003eThe Tyranny of E-mail\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHow to Read a Novelist\u003c\/em\u003e. He has also edited two anthologies of writing on inequality, \u003cem\u003eTales of Two Cities\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTales of Two Americas\u003c\/em\u003e. The former editor of \u003cem\u003eGranta\u003c\/em\u003e, he lives in New York, where he teaches at The New School and is writer-in-residence at New York University. The executive editor at LitHub, he has published poems in \u003cem\u003eZyzzyva\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041319551319,"sku":"9781556595233","price":17.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781556595233.jpg?v=1750949798","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/maps-9781556595233","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}