The cartographer tries to map a way to Zion /

In this collection, acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller dramatizes what happens when one system of knowledge, one method of understanding place and territory, comes up against another. We watch as the cartographer, used to the scientific methods of assuming control over a place by mapping it, is grad...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miller, Kei (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Carcanet Press, 2014.
Subjects:

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000Ii 4500
001 in00004124178
005 20200720131424.0
008 140220t20142014enk 000 p eng d
035 |a (OCoLC)ocn870980350 
040 |a BTCTA  |e rda  |c BTCTA  |d BDX  |d CDX  |d NYP  |d ZCU  |d IUL  |d WAU  |d LVT  |d BUF  |d UEJ  |d AZU  |d JYJ  |d TXA 
020 |a 9781847772671 
020 |a 1847772676 
050 4 |a PR9265.9.M553  |b C37 2014 
082 0 |a 811.6  |2 23 
049 |a TXAM 
100 1 |a Miller, Kei,  |e author. 
240 1 0 |a Poems.  |k Selections 
245 1 4 |a The cartographer tries to map a way to Zion /  |c Kei Miller. 
264 1 |a Manchester :  |b Carcanet Press,  |c 2014. 
264 4 |c ©2014 
300 |a 72 pages ;  |c 22 cm 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a unmediated  |b n  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a volume  |b nc  |2 rdacarrier 
505 0 |a Groundation; The shrug of Jah; Establishing the metre; Quashie's verse; Unsettled; What the mapmaker ought to know; The cartographer tries to Map a way to Zion; i. in which the cartographer explains himself; ii. in which the rastaman disagrees; iii.; iv.; v. in which the rastaman offers an invitation; vi.; vii.; viii.; A Prayer for the unflummoxed beaver; ix. in which the cartographer travels lengths and breadths; Place name: Me-No-Sen-You-No-Come; x. in which the cartographer asks for directions; xi.; A ghazal for the tethered goats; Roads xii. in which the rastaman begins to feel uncomfortable; xiii.; xiv.; Place name: Swamp; For the croaking lizards; Place name: Wait-A-Bit; xv.; xvi. in which every song is singing Zion; xvii.; Place name: Shotover; Place name: Corn Puss Gap; xviii.; xix.; xx. in which the cartographer tells off the rastaman; Place name: Half Way Tree; Place name: Edinburgh Castle; Hymn to the birds; xxi.; Filop Plays the Role of Papa Ghede (2010); Distance; When considering the long, long journey of 28,000 rubber ducks; xxii.; xxiii.; xxiv. in which the cartographer attends Reggae Sumfest; The blood cloths; Place name: Bloody Bay; For Pat Saunders, West Indian literature critic, after her dream; xxv.; In praise of maps; My mother's atlas of dolls; Place name: Flog man; Place name: Try see; What River Mumma knows; xxvi. in which the rastaman gives a sermon; xxvii. in which the rastaman says a benediction. 
520 |a In this collection, acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller dramatizes what happens when one system of knowledge, one method of understanding place and territory, comes up against another. We watch as the cartographer, used to the scientific methods of assuming control over a place by mapping it, is gradually compelled to recognize, even to envy, a wholly different understanding of place, as he tries to map his way to the rastaman's eternal city of Zion. As the book unfolds the cartographer learns that, on this island of roads that "constrict like throats," every place name comes freighted with history, and not every place that can be named can be found. 
541 |a Poetry browsing collection : gift of Eleanor Weinbaum family. 
650 0 |a Cartography  |v Poetry. 
655 0 |a Rastafarian poetry. 
655 0 |a Jamaican poetry. 
948 |a cataloged  |b h  |c 2020/7/20  |d c  |e dmitchel  |f 1:10:20 pm 
994 |a C0  |b TXA 
999 f f |s e79d4901-3d62-36de-b1bb-6499c49f2267  |i 928d0b9c-4fd0-3390-b38a-df7d8d66c5d4  |t 0 
952 f f |p normal  |a Texas A&M University  |b College Station  |c Sterling C. Evans Library  |d Evans: Weinbaum Poetry Collection (1st floor)  |t 0  |e PR9265.9.M553 C37 2014  |h Library of Congress classification  |i unmediated -- volume  |m A14851520966 
998 f f |a PR9265.9.M553 C37 2014  |t 0  |l Evans: Weinbaum Poetry Collection (1st floor)