Giscome Road (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))

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Summary: Poetry to read and read again.
Review: Giscome Road is a poem of location and its ambiguity, of presence (remembered as name) and its antecedents. It's a road trip (there are maps for navigation) with a jazz soundtrack, riding the edge from Jamaica to British Columbia. It's a "Roots" quest and a metaphysical query. It's about blackness as landscape. And, best of all, the language is exquisite; from the first line, "The song's a commotion rising in the current," to the last, "You never know what name the periphery's going to start with." Giscombe Road is the most intriguing book of "poetry" that I've read this year.