Border Towns
Paperback 217 pages English Aug 19, 2016
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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.")
- Author:
- C. S. Giscombe
- Publisher:
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Publication Date:
- Aug 19, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 217 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1564787656
- ISBN-13:
- 9781564787651