Ink for an Odd Cartography - Paperback

by Michele Battiste (Author)

In INK FOR AN ODD CARTOGRAPHY, Battiste takes on the poetics of geography, examining the influence landscape and place have on people and their decisions. She investigates the charged distance between individuals, the space between where all the action-and interaction-takes place. The final section of the book, "Mapping the Spaces Between," is a linked series of epistolary poems in which a slightly neurotic speaker addresses her lover. Though the poems begin tenderly, things quickly go awry.

Author Biography

Michele Battiste is the author of two chapbooks: Raising Petra (Pudding House, 2007) and Mapping the Spaces Between (Snark Publishing, 2004). She is the recipient of a 2007 Blue Mountain Center Residency, a 2006 Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, a 2005 AWP Intros Award and the 2004 Poetry Fellowship at Wichita State University.