{"title":"C. S. Giscombe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eC. S. Giscombe\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a profound exploration of landscape, memory, and identity through a unique melding of poetry and prose. His works invite readers to consider the intersections of history and place with a nuanced, thoughtful voice that resonates deeply within the Arts \u0026amp; Culture sphere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom contemplative reflections in \u003cem\u003eNegro Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e to his broader engagements with cultural landscapes, Giscombe’s writing challenges conventional narratives and enriches the reader's understanding of personal and collective experience. His work is essential for those drawn to evocative, intellectually engaging literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"negro-mountain-by-c-s-giscombe-9780226829715","title":"Negro Mountain","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA cross-genre poetry collection that troubles the idea of poetic voice while considering history, biology, the shamanistic, and the shapes of racial memory.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the final section of \u003ci\u003eNegro Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, C. S. Giscombe writes, “Negro Mountain—the summit of which is the highest point in Pennsylvania—is a default, a way among others to think about the Commonwealth.” Named for an “incident” in which a Black man was killed while fighting on the side of white enslavers against Indigenous peoples in the eighteenth century, this mountain has a shadow presence throughout this collection; it appears, often indirectly, in accounts of visions, reimaginings of geography, testimonies about the “natural” world, and speculations and observations about race, sexuality, and monstrosity. These poems address location, but Giscombe—who worked for ten years in central Pennsylvania—understands location to be a practice, the continual “action of situating.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book weaves through the ranges of thinking that poetic voice itself might trouble. Addressing a gallery of figures, Giscombe probes their impurities and ambivalences as a way of examining what languages “count” or “don’t count” as poetry. Here, he finds that the idea of poetry is visionary, but also investigatory and exploratory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471305851116,"sku":"9780226829715","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780226829715-negro-mountain.jpg?v=1775237570"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/c-s-giscombe.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}