"A profound meditation on the permeability of past and present, nature and artifice, self and other, space and time, Mapmaking is a miracle of invention." --Alice Fulton
Winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry
The poems in Mapmaking, Megan Harlan's first poetry collection, span settings from contemporary Manhattan to prewar Paris, from the Arabian desert to the California coast, to explore the creative nature of place -- how people navigate the deeper landscapes of love and loss, home and dislocation, memory and imagination.
Mapmaking, won the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, selected by poet and translator Sidney Wade, who writes, "The poems in this book exhibit the poet's great attention to and skill with form, sound, and language. The poems are constantly surprising, taking us to the far corners of the poet's metaphorical maps, and, in her words, 'gesturing us to go further.' This is imaginative writing at its very best--visual, aural, metaphorical, ethical, and adventurous. The poet constructs genuinely new topographies for us that offer significant and original inroads into our understanding of what it means to be human."
