Map Home

In the poem that opens this career-spanning odyssey, a blind weaver, who is at once a grandmotherly Penelope and a Homeric bard, maps you homehome finally, as the concluding poem reveals, to the Swamp Fox-haunted lowlands of Havirds native South. Along the way, which threads through Hardys Wessex, the Greece of Homer and Seferis, and Jack Londons Valley of the Moon, we take our bearings in elliptical terrain, as Rosanna Warren describes the typical settinglandscapes through whose gaps emerge the ghosts of memory and myth to engage the living in scenes of infinite moment. In Map Home, as in Havirds award-winning chapbook, Penelopes Designbut amply herethe memories of a dream-dishevelled child in the Deep South unfold, as Eleanor Wilner observes, into the meditative travels of the literary man in elegant poems riddled with starlight.