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    Cartography and Walking
    Cartography and Walking
    Cartography and Walking
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    Cartography and Walking

    By Adam Dickinson

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    Shortlisted for the 2003 Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book (Writers Guild of Alberta Award)

    In Cartography and Walking, Adam Dickinson charts his own listening -- an acute listening of eye and ear, a listening with both body and mind. "Cartography" is more than a metaphor for him, it's a way of being. It is how we dwell in the world, and how intimacy enriches such dwelling. Yet "cartography" is the presiding metaphor, the structure of this book; in giving it such a place, Dickinson reminds the reader of that very human impulse to plot, to imagine. Each poem is itself a kind of mapping, through language and sound, through minute observation, until land, love, and everyday life are given new embodiment, are newly discovered, and a reader finds new countries in strangely familiar settings.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrick Books
    Release dateSep 15, 2002
    ISBN9781771312790
    Cartography and Walking
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    Adam Dickinson

    Adam Dickinson's poetry has appeared in literary journals and anthologies in Canada and internationally. He has published three books of poetry. His most recent book, The Polymers, was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Poetry, the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, and the ReLit Award. His work has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, and Polish. He has been featured at international literary festivals such as Poetry International in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and the Oslo International Poetry Festival in Norway. He currently lives in St. Catherines, Ontario, where he teaches poetics and creative writing at Brock University.

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      Book preview

      Cartography and Walking - Adam Dickinson

      Cartography   

      and Walking

      Cartography   

      and Walking

      Adam

      Dickinson

      National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data

      Dickinson, Adam, 1974-

      Cartography and walking

      Poems.

      ISBN 1-894078-22-5

      I. Title

      PS8557.I3235C37 2002       C811’.6          C2001-904092-X

      PR9199.4.D52C37 2002

      © Adam Dickinson, 2002

      We gratefully acknowledge the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP), and the Ontario Arts Council for their support of our publishing programme.

      The cover photograph is the work of Bruce Litteljohn.

      The author photograph was taken by Dorothy Field.

      The maps on the end paper and ♣, ♣ and ♣ were drawn by the author and reproduced with the help of Gabrielle Zezulka-Mailloux.

      Design and layout by Alan Siu.

      Printed and bound by Sunville Printco Inc.

      Brick Books

      431 Boler Road, Box 20081

      London, Ontario N6K 4G6

      brick.books@sympatico.ca

      This book is

      for Mom, Dad,

      and Kim.

      Table of Contents

      Part I: Escarpments

      Disappointment in the Masonry

      Or Was It the Smell of Cut Wood

      Having to Start the Garden Alone

      Get the Kids to Bring in a Log of Black Cherry

      Something Made Me Think of Bears

      The Cardinal

      When We Stand, We Are Leaning

      Into the Hooves of Horses

      He Who Waits for Spring

      Making Use of Franklin

      When We Become Desirable

      Portraits

      Both In and Out of Sight

      More Water, We Thought

      Looking at the Teeth of a Wet Saw

      Cedar Canvas

      For a Nominal Form

      Natural Habitat

      Sympathetic Nervous System

      When at First the Doubt Appears

      The Distance Is Taciturn

      Rejoinder

      The Podium

      Look at the Lake, Please

      Eastern Hardwoods

      Lake Filling in with Land

      Driving Home

      Sleep Begins in the Mouth

      Part II: Cordillera

      Cartographer

      Composition

      Before We Learned to Live in One Place

      Reinforcing the Watershed

      Believing the First Words You Hear

      In Late Afternoon Sun You Are Water Seen

      from a Train Window

      Erratics

      How We Look at Maps

      Knowing Where to Look

      Fortune

      Into the Field

      Falling and Falling Blues

      To Grand Manan Island

      The First Time You Meet

      Learning to Swim

      Archipelago

      Mapping in Seven Parts

      The Return

      Part III: Standing Water

      The Question of Whether the Bread Was Noticed

      In Terms Unfamiliar

      In the Upper Reaches

      Among Branches

      Pressed Against the Gunwales

      Corpus Callosum

      We Tried to Keep from Slipping

      Celestial Mechanics

      Interpellation

      A Kind of Vertigo

      The One Virtuous Act of the Dictator

      When Light Lies Thirty Feet Across

      Travel

      I Tell You This Is What I Do Not Tell You

      In Between Points of View

      Calling in the Dogs

      Great Slave Lake Disclosure

      The Shifting Weight of Staying

      Concerning a Sudden Departure

      Fort Smith Fire Brigade

      Beetroot

      The Part of the Flag Nearest the Staff

      Introducing or Being Introduced

      Acknowledgements

      Biography

      Part I

      Escarpments

      Disappointment in the Masonry

      There is little doubt

      that bats are in the chimney.

      At dusk, you can hear

      the folded sheets

      of their slender ascent,

      a private appearance

      over rooftops,

      the steam from a bath

      that has just been filled.

      Their modesty confounds us.

      They dart in the cover of tree tops

      as

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