Ultima Thule by Davis McCombs (2000, Hardcover) 
Ultima Thule by Davis McCombs (2000, Hardcover)

 
Ultima Thule by Davis McCombs (2000, Hardcover)

Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Publication Date: 2000-04-01
Series: The Yale Series of Younger Poets
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0300083165
ISBN-13: 9780300083163
Product ID: EPID1616695
Description: Winner of the Yale Younger Poets series judged by W. S. Merwin, this collection draws on the author's experiences as a Park Ranger at Kentucky's Mammoth Cave, using the cave both as a setting for his explorations and as a metaphor for Am...
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Synopsis
Winner of the Yale Younger Poets series judged by W. S. Merwin, this collection draws on the author's experiences as a Park Ranger at Kentucky's Mammoth Cave, using the cave both as a setting for his explorations and as a metaphor for America's racial history. The initial long section imagines the life of Stephen Bishop, an early guide and explorer of the cave who was also a slave, owned by Mammoth Cave's owner.

Details
Publication Date:2000-04-01
Series:The Yale Series of Younger Poets

Size
Length:52 pages
Height:9.5 in
Width:5.8 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:12.0 oz

Industry Reviews
"McCombs, in ULTIMA THULE, works by a haunted lyrical candlelight as he takes us deep, very deep inside the Mammoth Cave of south central Kentucky....He absorbs his ghostly fragments into a style that seems almost styleless, built of subtle, maybe overly subtle, increments. He brushes the skin with essential images."
Jalon

"[T]he rough geology of the landscape...and the discovery of its shape...become urgent images that strikingly illuminate darkened interior spaces."
New York Times Book Review - Megan Harlan (06/11/2000)

"Davis McCombs' ULTIMA THULE charts territory not often found in contemporary poetry and does so with sympathy and precision."
Contemporary Poetry Review

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