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    Cartography and Walking
    Cartography and Walking
    Cartography and Walking
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    Cartography and Walking

    By Adam Dickinson

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    Shortlisted for the 2003 Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book (Writers Guild of Alberta Award)

    In Cartography and Walking, Adam Dickinson charts his own listening -- an acute listening of eye and ear, a listening with both body and mind. "Cartography" is more than a metaphor for him, it's a way of being. It is how we dwell in the world, and how intimacy enriches such dwelling. Yet "cartography" is the presiding metaphor, the structure of this book; in giving it such a place, Dickinson reminds the reader of that very human impulse to plot, to imagine. Each poem is itself a kind of mapping, through language and sound, through minute observation, until land, love, and everyday life are given new embodiment, are newly discovered, and a reader finds new countries in strangely familiar settings.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrick Books
    Release dateSep 15, 2002
    ISBN9781771312790
    Cartography and Walking
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    Adam Dickinson

    Adam Dickinson is a professor of poetry and poetics at Brock University. His first book, Cartography and Walking, was shortlisted for an Alberta Book Award. He lives in St. Catharines.

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