whereabouts
About this book
in the poem / of the world / there once / was a map / of the map / composed in / the likeness / of a poem
In this riddling and seeking book of poems, Edward Carson navigates the emotional, often contradictory intelligence of the heart and mind. In three interrelated segments, whereabouts powerfully charts the tight emotional spaces between thinking and language, beauty and perception, love and the polemics of self and other.
Taking on cartographic distortions and dynamics of the map metaphor, "thereabouts (or the mapmaker's dilemma)" playfully confronts the quandaries of personal navigation when the wants and needs of the esemplastic mind are forever devising new places to be. Exploring the brain, its neurons, and serpentine synaptic connections, "hereabouts (in fourteen scans)" advances a poetry of rhizomic communication capturing networks of thought and feeling that spring from both conflict and caress. Within a relationship's countless masquerades and revelations, "whereabouts (the lovers' discourse)" invites the reader to eavesdrop on a series of intimate conversations wherein lovers argue and act out their richly populated inner lives, addressing issues of gender, pleasure, communication, control, and sex.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- THEREABOUTS
- IN THE POEM
- NEAR OR FAR
- DISTORTION
- CONTIGUOUS
- A MAP IS
- COLONIZING A
- THE BRAIN IS
- MERCURIAL
- THOUGHTS OF A
- FLIRTATIONS
- THERMODYNAMIC
- TANGENTS IN
- WOOZY IN LOVE
- AT THE END
- HEREABOUTS
- LEFT LINGUAL GYRUS OCCIPITAL LOBE
- RIGHT POSTERIOR PARIETAL LOBE
- LEFT ANGULAR GYRUS PARIETAL LOBE
- RIGHT LINGUAL GYRUS OCCIPITAL LOBE
- VENTROINTERMEDIAL THALAMUS
- LEFT POSTERIOR PARIETAL LOBE
- SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS
- LEFT HIPPOCAMPUS
- VENTROLATERAL THALAMUS
- POSTCENTRAL GYRUS PARIETAL LOBE
- RIGHT ANGULAR GYRUS PARIETAL LOBE
- RIGHT ANTERIOR CINGULATE GYRUS
- RIGHT AMYGDALA
- MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX
- WHEREABOUTS
- PROLOGUE: AMARE CHRONOS KAIROS AEVUM
- FORCE THAT MAKES UP IN TIME WHAT IT LOSES IN SPEED
- QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENTS
- ALL BY MYSELF DON’T WANT TO BE ALL BY MYSELF
- NO ONE BELONGS HERE MORE THAN YOU
- WHEN WOMEN WERE BIRDS
- MEAN FREE PATH
- RARELY OFTEN ALWAYS NEVER KNOWN
- SPEAK LOW IF YOU SPEAK LOVE
- EMBODIED SUBJECT AND FRAGMENTED OBJECT
- WHOSE BODY IS THIS
- LOVE IS A DIFFICULT CAUSE TO DEMONSTRATE
- ABSENCE IN SHAPING SPATIAL PRESENCE
- A RHETORIC OF SEMBLANCE
- PETITE SONATINE CANTIQUE
- RHETORICAL PAWNS IN UNWINNABLE ARGUMENTS
- SWIFT ANSWER SLOW SILENCE
- AFTER AN ARGUMENT THE DARK MIND OF NIGHT
- NO ONE SAYS THIS TO YOU BUT ME
- CLAIMS COUNTERCLAIMS
- INFINITE REGRESS
- INFINITE MEADOW
- SHE KNOWS HE THINKS HE KNOWS WHO SHE IS
- ALTERNATE VOICES PASSING BETWEEN US
- THROUGH SKILLFUL OMISSION OF CRITICAL FACTS
- A MAN LIKE A WOMAN LIKE A MAN
- ASYMMETRICAL ALLURE WITH SOMEONE ELSE
- X INACTIVE SPECIFIC TRANSCRIPT
- NEITHER NOISE NOR SIGNAL
- THE EMPTY GLANCE OF A KNOWING OBSERVER
- BEFORE BEHIND BETWEEN ABOVE BELOW
- A TEETERING TONGUE CLOSE BY
- LISTEN LISTEN LISTEN
- IN THE WAY THAT MOST OF THE WIND HAPPENS
- ROMANCE OF A MISTAKEN INTENTION
- TURNING TO AFFECT
- ALL OF ME WHY NOT TAKE ALL OF ME
- NEITHER PROVING YOU LESS WANTED NOR LESS DEAR
- LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME
- ELOQUENCE IS HEARD BUT POETRY IS OVERHEARD
- NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
