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Anca Vlasopolos' magnificent collection of poetry is a meditation on map-making and on migration, which pays homage to two scientists, Gerardus Mercator and Nathaniel Bowditch, whose work was enormously useful but unwittingly helped lead to conquest, decimation, and in some cases extinction of native habitats, peoples, and non-human life. These poems celebrate life that often passes unnoticed (intertidal creatures, migrating and "common" birds, amphibians, reptiles, non-charismatic mammals, and disregarded humans), advocate for its worth, habitats, and right to existence.
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Anca Vlasopolos has published over 200 poems, the poetry collections Penguins in a Warming World and Walking Toward Solstice, and the non-fiction novel The New Bedford Samurai, as well as the highly acclaimed memoir No Return Address. She is Professor Emerita at Wayne State University, where she taught English and Comparative Literature for 39 years. She lives with her husband, Anthony Ambrogio, a writer and editor, in Centerville, MA
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A significant contribution to the literature of the ecological imagination, that brings human histories of territorial mastery together with nature's flitting shape-shifting creations, through poetics as precise as the maps the poems recreate and as delicate as the dragonfly wings they celebrate: this is Vlasopolos' finest work in a long line of strong books. --Shirley Geok-lin Lim, winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and author of Among the White Moon Faces, winner of the American Book Award.
Anca Vlasopolos has a researcher s gaze and a birdwatcher s ear as she takes up navigation as a theme in Cartographies of Scale (and Wing). She describes early mapmakers trying to get hold of the world s vastness while animals find their way by a mysterious instinct, a world we have no eyes for. Her poems are sure-handed, but she makes way for uncertainty: we see this mortal world / for one cosmic particle of time. --Ellen Foos, publisher of Ragged Sky Press, books editor at Princeton University Pres
Anca Vlasopolos has a researcher s gaze and a birdwatcher s ear as she takes up navigation as a theme in Cartographies of Scale (and Wing). She describes early mapmakers trying to get hold of the world s vastness while animals find their way by a mysterious instinct, a world we have no eyes for. Her poems are sure-handed, but she makes way for uncertainty: we see this mortal world / for one cosmic particle of time. --Ellen Foos, publisher of Ragged Sky Press, books editor at Princeton University Pres
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