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- Author: C S Giscombe
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- ISBN-10: 1564787656
- ISBN-13: 9781564787651
- Format: 14 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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The several essays that comprise Border Towns chase, worry, and trouble ideas about situation and reference. As a group, the essays' topics--color, lycanthropy, African-Canadian history, cooking, public transit, etc., --make an unlikely field. But through all its pages the book traces and describes acts of situation; and--for all its werewolves, green-grocers, and paeans to miscegenation and migration--its interest is not in capturing but in "the shape of reference itself."
The title figure of the border town serves as a "beard" for the unassimilable. The author, whose other Dalkey books are poetry books, writes, "The mistake or the short-sightedness is to perceive border towns as finite or one-to-one compositions, or as places where monoliths stretch and mingle; or stare at one another.....Perhaps at best is border town--the term--the gesture toward something that's actually untenable or untenably awkward." So Border Towns--the book of essays--is perhaps, finally, a book about poetry. ("It often seems to me," writes the author, "that one of the best uses to which prose can be put is describing poetry.")
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- Author: C S Giscombe
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- ISBN-10: 1564787656
- ISBN-13: 9781564787651
- Format: 14 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
The several essays that comprise Border Towns chase, worry, and trouble ideas about situation and reference. As a group, the essays' topics--color, lycanthropy, African-Canadian history, cooking, public transit, etc., --make an unlikely field. But through all its pages the book traces and describes acts of situation; and--for all its werewolves, green-grocers, and paeans to miscegenation and migration--its interest is not in capturing but in "the shape of reference itself."
The title figure of the border town serves as a "beard" for the unassimilable. The author, whose other Dalkey books are poetry books, writes, "The mistake or the short-sightedness is to perceive border towns as finite or one-to-one compositions, or as places where monoliths stretch and mingle; or stare at one another.....Perhaps at best is border town--the term--the gesture toward something that's actually untenable or untenably awkward." So Border Towns--the book of essays--is perhaps, finally, a book about poetry. ("It often seems to me," writes the author, "that one of the best uses to which prose can be put is describing poetry.")
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