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Ultima Thule
by Davis McCombs
ISBN: 0300083173
ISBN-13: 9780300083170
Format: Paperback
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Summary
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.
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"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." -- Allan M. Jalon
-- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
"[T]he rough geology of the landscape...and the discovery of its shape...become urgent images that strikingly illuminate darkened interior spaces." -- Megan Harlan
-- New York Times Book Review
"Davis McCombs’ ULTIMA THULE charts territory not often found in contemporary poetry and does so with sympathy and precision."
-- Contemporary Poetry Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published date: 2000
Size: 5.5 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 0.25 pounds
Pages: 52
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