Kathryn Cowles\'s Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World is a collection that lingers in memory and place, in the unsettled distance between reality and its transcriptions.
These Poems surround a central question: how much of a moment is captured by the mechanisms we use to describe it? How much of the sh. "I take seven photographs turning / in a circle, a panorama, / but how will I place them hanging / on a wall back home? Something already slipping," Cowles writes.
Kathryn Cowles\'s Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World is a collection that lingers in memory and place, in the unsettled distance between reality and its transcriptions