Poetry by Mark McMorris
February 2, 2010 6 x 9 90 pages 978-1-56689-236-0
Missives from the entreptor port citywhere civilization trades in art, love, and war.
Within the intimate, enlightened, and dazzling linguistic flights of these poem-letters, Mark McMorris offers keen observations of war and warriors, history and artengaging a world that has experienced continuous combat since Helen gave Paris a flower / at least since the Bronze Age of Agamemnons armada.
About the Author
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Mark McMorris is an award-winning poet whose books include Entrept and The Blaze of the Poui, a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, writer-in-residence at Brown University, and visiting professor at University of California-Berkeley. He was recently director of the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University, where he currently teaches.