{"product_id":"maps-and-transcripts-of-the-ordinary-world-by-kathryn-cowles-9781571315021","title":"Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKathryn Cowles's \u003cem\u003eMaps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection that lingers in memory and place, in the unsettled distance between reality and its transcriptions. \"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese poems surround a central question: how much of a moment is captured by the mechanisms we use to describe it? How much of the shore, the birds, the feeling? In pursuit of an answer, Cowles leads readers through a sequence of distinct landscapes (islands, plains, mountains, oceans) with both traditional lyricism and the playful refrains of a speaker fixated on the dilemma of representation. \"Holy photograph. Holy actual world. Equal sign equal sign equal sign.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World\u003c\/em\u003e both puzzles over and embraces the valley between literature and lived experience. Along the way, Cowles's language is light but recursive, rotating around beloved places: a new house, a garden, a seemingly endless plane ride, a battery-operated spit of lamb, a photograph of a battery-operated spit of lamb, dogs, Sue, Ohio. This collection defamiliarizes and refamiliarizes the \"actual world,\" while navigating toward the clear and substantial stuff of living.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eArresting on both visual and textual levels, \u003cem\u003eMaps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World\u003c\/em\u003e is executed with the utmost intelligence, humility, and tenderness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596883607788,"sku":"9781571315021","price":46.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781571315021-maps-and-transcripts-of-the-ordinary-world.jpg?v=1777943730","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/maps-and-transcripts-of-the-ordinary-world-by-kathryn-cowles-9781571315021","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}