Campeche

by Joshua Edwards

Book Overview

Poetry. Photography. Titled after pirate Jean Lafitte's name for Galveston Island, CAMPECHE is a cautionary lyric composed of poems and photographs in which a real place is overlaid with the parable of a mythical world on the verge of an apocalyptic flood. Like the body fishermen of the Yellow River, this book combs water for remains and meditates on evidence, while attempting to reckon with the self as a troubled song within a greater song. "If the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934819190
• ISBN13: 9781934819197
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Noemi Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 7.6"