Human Cartography

by James Gurley

Book Overview

In this collection, poet James Gurley maps the emotional and physical landscapes we inhabit. His poems employ the theorems and metaphors of science to examine how history and the natural world around... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931112150
• ISBN13: 9781931112154
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Truman State University Press
• Length: 101 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Helluva Book of Poems

Here, finally, is a poet who wants to remarry reason and passion into a symbiotic relationship--instead of distancing himself from the more analytic sciences (as most modern poets do). Gurley's poems examine the physical and empirical reality of the scientist with the subjective and sublime eye of the poet, transforming what he observes through a combination of scientific examination and a poetic love of language and metaphor. The end result is not only a happy co-existence of science and poetry on the page, but a great new well of poems. If you're interested--at all--in modern poetry, you should buy this book. You'll find yourself reading and re-reading the poems and counting the days until Mr. Gurley's next offering.