The Perforated Map

by Eléna Rivera

Poetry. Who guides us through the unknown? Who offers the keys? In THE PERFORATED MAP, El na Rivera's guide is language as she attempts to navigate the distances, the disturbances, the suggestions, the mistakes, the perforations. In these poems, language is the map, the matter that fills/affects the body, the organizing principle between the self and the world, and the forms that it gives rise to. The sentence is filled with holes. What is graspable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848611609
• ISBN13: 9781848611603
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"