Selenography [Paperback]

Joshua Marie Wilkinson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2010

Joshua Marie Wilkinson's Selenography finds words in want of their own life to chart an adumbrated landscape, "a good song played // too patchily / to keep / in your lungs." Side by side with full-color Polaroids by Califone's Tim Rutili, these poems traverse thought and image, object and vestige, contingency and intention, likening the haunted drift through this sounding of words to a river, "easy incomplete but it / took us / like twigs."

Editorial Reviews

Review

In [Wilkinson's] latest we are charting out the surface of Wilkinson s thought, with all the attendant mystery and depth that the moon mythically implies. Just as the Renaissance writers found a nomenclature to attach to the rifts and ranges of the moon, the poet finds a common thread in words, however tenuous, connecting the peaks and craters of his thought. --Sean Patrick Hill, Bookslut.com

About the Author

Born and raised in Seattle, Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of five books of poetry, most recently SELENOGRAPHY (Sidebrow Books, 2010). He has also edited two anthologies for University of Iowa Press, including Poets on Teaching, due out fall 2010. A tour documentary about the band Califone, entitled Made a Machine by Describing the Landscape, is also forthcoming. He teaches at Loyola University Chicago, and divides his time between Chicago and Athens, Georgia. Tim Rutili is a musician, filmmaker, and visual artist. He is principal songwriter, lyricist, and vocalist for Red Red Meat and Califone, bands which he founded. He is also a member of Ugly Casanova and Boxhead Ensemble. Rutili has composed music for documentary and feature films and contributed to albums by Modest Mouse, Sage Francis, and many other artists. He has directed numerous short films and music videos. His feature-film directorial debut All My Friends Are Funeral Singers had its premier at the 2010 Sundance film festival. He lives in Los Angeles and Chicago.

Product Details

• Paperback: 103 pages
• Publisher: Sidebrow Books (April 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0981497527
• ISBN-13: 978-0981497525
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,425,582 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Born and raised in Seattle, Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of two book-length poems, including Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk. His most recent works are The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth, Selenography (with Polaroids by Tim Rutili), and Poets on Teaching. With Solan Jensen, he directed a tour documentary about the band Califone entitled Made a Machine by Describing the Landscape. He lives in Tucson and teaches in the MFA program at University of Arizona.