{"product_id":"negro-mountain-paperback","title":"Negro Mountain - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eC. S. Giscombe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eC. S. Giscombe \u003c\/b\u003eis the author or coauthor of fourteen books, including \u003ci\u003eGiscome Road\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Carl Sandburg Prize; \u003ci\u003ePrairie Style\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of an American Book Award; \u003ci\u003eBorder Towns\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eOhio Railroads\u003c\/i\u003e; and\u003ci\u003e Train Music\u003c\/i\u003e, in collaboration with the book artist Judith Margolis. He is the recipient of the 2010 Stephen Henderson Award given by the African-American Literature and Culture Society. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, the Canadian Embassy to the United States, and others. He is professor and the Robert Hass Chair in English at the University of California, Berkeley. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9.4 x 6.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 06, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764618789152,"sku":"9780226829715","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c07fcfecb77e8525ab887359220d2722.webp?v=1780253713","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/negro-mountain-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}