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ISBN-10: 0811218295
ISBN-13: 9780811218290
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 09/29/2009
Dimensions: 8.94" L, 6.08" W, 0.36" H

The Sri Lankan Loxodrome

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Overview

the maps one comes to know
are but boulders which are shattered by spoilage
–Will Alexander

In navigation a loxodrome, or rhumb-line, is a line that crosses all meridians at the same angle, maintaining one compass direction, a path of constant bearing. In his breakthrough poetry collection, The Sri Lankan Loxodrome, Will Alexander connects this theme to a lone Sri Lankan sailor who beheads sea snakes as an ongoing meditation while sailing the expanse of the Indian Ocean. Along the way he meets various African communities as he journeys eastward, from Madagascar to Sri Lanka. In lush, perfumed language filled with the spirit of Aimé Césaire and Sun Ra, Alexander maps an epic voyage unlike any other in contemporary poetry.

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Alexander's poems are unpunctuated, their expanding structures suggest that each might be read as a single very long, very complex sentence...a complex sentence machine turning out elaborate grammatical parallelisms, extensive series of epic catalogues, and open-ended syntax of discordant clauses and appended prepositional phrases.–HarRyette Mullen "Callaloo"
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Details

ISBN-10: 0811218295
ISBN-13: 9780811218290
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 09/29/2009
Dimensions: 8.94" L, 6.08" W, 0.36" H
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