Giscome Road

Winner of the Carl Sandburg Award for Poetry upon first publication, ?"Giscome Road" continues the meditation on place begun in "Here," C. S. Giscombe's earlier volume of poetry. Concerned with specific locales in northern Canada named for the nineteenth-century Jamaican miner and explorer John Robert Giscome, this collection incorporates a variety of historical documents, maps, and dreams, to go "in & further in," discovering and documenting music, racial dichotomies, sexuality, and the ways in which landscape itself is described.

Author: C. S. Giscombe
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 04/01/1998
Pages: 69
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.51w x 0.24d
ISBN: 9781564781840
About the Author
C. S. Giscombe was born in Dayton, Ohio. He was educated in the Dayton public and parochial schools and earned degrees in English from the State University of New York at Albany and Cornell University.
His poetry books are "Prairie Style," "Two Sections from Practical Geography," "Giscome Road," "Here," "At Large," and "Postcards"; his prose book--about Canada--is "Into and Out of Dislocation."