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Scape

Poetry. SCAPE, a poised and attentive debut collection by Joshua Harmon, engages with various landscapes — from the constructed and debased world of parking lots, potato chip factories, and cul-de-sac traceries to the "rural equation" of woods, fields, and "clouds' crumpled page" to create a series of conversations and engagements with the idea of the natural. Through his precise observations, Harmon defines landscape — the word and the idea — through an insightful and meticulous relationship with language. For Harmon, landscape is never static; instead his poems map a constantly changing terrain, in which the interior is imposed on the exterior as a frame for seeing it. "In SCAPE, Joshua Harmon reaches deep into the resources of our rich English, renewing the language and creating from it a physical and emotional world completely his own: his incisive and richly musical stanzas have an ever-returning vigor and freshness" — Lydia Davis.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 88
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780977770984
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 2009