Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World

This “innovative” poetry collection “uses text and image to explore the strangeness inherent in everyday experience” ( Publishers Weekly ). “I take seven photographs turning / in a circle, a panorama, / but how will I place them hanging / on a wall back home? Something already slipping,” Kathryn Cowles writes. These poems surround a central question: how much of a moment is captured by the mechanisms we use to describe it? How much of the shore, the birds, the feeling? In pursuit of an answer, C