Map of Faring, A

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A Map of Faring holds three major poetical sequences meditating on particular places: an English wood, a Transylvanian valley, and a house in southern France, as well as poems of places in Austria, Germany, The Czech Republic, Italy, Spain and elsewhere. In these, landscape and encounters become the vocabulary of a personal exploration of senses of time and passage, and the fate of small localities in the spread of global forces. A Map of Faring reckons with acts large and small, that are transforming the world, even as it searches to understand, within that reckoning, the possible regenerative presence of art.

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• Published by: Parlor Press, LLC
• Published: 06 May 2005
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• EAN13: 9781932559613
• Language: English

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Riley AMap ofFaring Parlor Free VersePress & A Map o Faring

Peter Riley

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A Map of Faring

Peter Riley

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Acknowledgments T S  C First Sett 3 Second Sett 23 Coda: 14 Poems 37 Te Towns Along te Tisa 39 Kalotaszeg 40 Te Crowd Yelled out for More 41 Pilliszántlaszló 42 Frustovento 43 Sciele  Stuck in Vienna for Two Weeks Watcing CNN every Nigt 45 Room , Früstuckepension Caroline, Gudrunstraße , Wein  46 A Cold Room in Granada 47 Terezín 48 After Terezín 49 Alstonefield, after Dinner 50 Across Central Europe 51 Am Wei ß e Roß 52 Afterword toTwo Setts and Coda 53 Notes 54

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N P 57 Te Nigt Train Arrives at Dawn 59 Market Day at Apt 60 Fragments at Les Bassacs (arriving) 61 Les Bassacs (d) 62 Roofwatc 63 Aftertougt 64 Stubborn Interval 65 St-Saturnin, te Ridge 66 Meditations in te Fields /– 67 Te Walk to Roussillon 69 Lines at Nigt / 70 Lines at te Pool above St.-Saturnin 71 Meditations in te Field / 73 Lines at Nigt / 74 Lacoste 75 Recalling Lacoste (lines at nigt /) 76 Escape from Our Uncaring 77 Up te Big Hill and Back by Ten 78 Counting te Cost (Syllables at Nigt) 79 Te Walk Back to Gordes (lines) or Resolution and Interdependence 80 Numbers at Les Croagnes 81 Just a Song (lines at nigt /) 82 Notes on te Attempt to Visit Lorand Gaspar 83 Te Slower Walk to Roussillon wit Katy 84 Te Telepone Box on te Edge of te Cornfield 85 Last Nigt 86 Orange to Cartres 90 Slow Meditation in te Café-BarLes Caves du Mont Anis, le Puy 91 Afterword toNoon Province 94 Notes 95

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Sett One, Sett Two,andCodaave appeared on tree websites: Sett One onMastheadCroggan), (Alison Sett Two onJacket (Jon Tranter),Coda onGreat WorksPilpott). Individual poems (Peter ave appeared inNear Eastern Review,TriQuarterly,Chicago Review, andThe London Review of Books.The Towns Along the Tisaa and prose version ofKalotaszegare included in my book of sketces of Transylvania,The Dance at Mociu,publised by Searsman Books . Te editors publisers and webmasters responsible are warmly tanked. Noon Provincewas publised in a provisional edition of  cop- ies by Poetical Histories (Cambridge) in . It was next publised in a bilingual edition wit translations by Lorand Gaspar and Sara Clair, inNoon Province et autres poèmes,Atelier La Feugraie, Saint- Pierre-la-Vielle (France) 6. A selection of  pieces was included inPassing Measures,Carcanet . A version ofNoon Provincewas presented to Douglas Oliver in- scribed “A reminiscence of Europe for Douglas Oliver, on is depar- ture” in February, .

A Map of Faring