{"id":8372,"date":"2016-02-09T13:20:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T18:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=8372"},"modified":"2022-11-15T12:15:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T17:15:42","slug":"travels-marco","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/travels-marco\/","title":{"rendered":"Travels of Marco"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 78 pages \u2022 15.95
\nISBN-13: 978-1-935536-70-3<\/p>\n

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Travels of Marco<\/em><\/h1>\n

Mark Levine<\/h2>\n

The poems in Travels of Marco<\/em> speak with a heightened awareness of the incipience of personhood and of its tatters. Exploring a friction between living and surviving, the poems are preoccupied with employment\u2014physical and spiritual\u2014and unemployment, flight and immobility, ethereal selves and animal selves, absurdity and actuality. Here is work that raises the questions of whether the person who has lost language continues to dream and of whether the most remote memories of love and care might provide sustenance. The story these poems are telling in their shifting tones and identities is one of the restorative power of imaginative transport\u2014travels in language\u2014at the mind\u2019s limit.<\/p>\n

from \u201c(Employment),\u201d from Travels of Marco<\/em>:<\/p>\n

I had a calling.\nI took the call.\nIt was all I could do to follow the voice streaming into me\nLike traffic on the runway where I lay\nDown to gather.\nI had a calling. I heard the geese bleat\nIn the firmament as they migrated\nInto the jet\u2019s jets.\nAnd could I have foreseen that falling \nI could have fallen too \nRather than being sutured to the bottomless \nFreeze-out lake. \nFor it is fine to lie within one\u2019s borrowed blankets \nLooking up at the \nDropped ceiling coming down. \nFor at the moment I am counting holes\nIn the sound absorbing tiles\u2026<\/pre>\n
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