Map of the LostCentered in northern New Mexico, this collection of poetry describes a series of journeys that create maps of place and memory. The poems travel south to deserts both mythical and real, east to childhood and the past, west to the Pacific and notions of Buddhism, and north to Alaska and a cold transcendence. Each section concludes with a return home where reflection charts locations and people lost to everything from the passage of time to urban renewal. |
Contents
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Santa Fe Trail Sestina | 9 |
Each Thing Has Its Own Meaning | 15 |
Sack Quilt | 21 |
Writing on the Body | 28 |
Writing on Aspen | 34 |
Beauty and Violence | 42 |
Story Rock | 69 |
ExVoto of a Hand | 75 |
Columns | 82 |
Yellow Calla Lily | 88 |
Northwest Passage | 114 |
Sitka | 120 |
Floating World | 127 |
Exile | 133 |
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