Negro Mountain

by C. S. Giscombe | 01 December 2023
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A cross-genre poetry collection that troubles the idea of poetic voice while considering history, biology, the shamanistic, and the shapes of racial memory.   In the final section of Negro Mountain , 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."   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.  
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A cross-genre poetry collection that troubles the idea of poetic voice while considering history, biology, the shamanistic, and the shapes of racial memory.   In the final section of Negro Mountain , 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."   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.  
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A cross-genre poetry collection that troubles the idea of poetic voice while considering history, biology, the shamanistic, and the shapes of racial memory.   In the final section of Negro Mountain , 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."   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.  

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ISBN9780226829715

FormatPAPERBACK

PublisherTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (01 December. 2023)

No. of Pages96

Weight181

Language English

Dimensions 241 x 165 x 15

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