Down to Earth

Down to Earth is at once a road poem of the American mid-West, an epic of migration and ubiquitous borders, and a meteorological model of energy transfer. This book knows no limit to poetry's ambition, dodging every border post, down every highway, like the ocelot running through its narrative.

List of contents

• Like Substances
• In Tempo
• Intervention
• Present Company Excepted
• Stamp of Origin
• Oversight
• Next to Nothing
• Number One
• Excuse Me
• Collaboration
• Condensation
• The Indiana Toll
• Back of Beyond
• Travel Plaza
• Stopover
• Rust Belt
• All Those Gates
• The Confronter
• Crumple Zone
• Like by David Smith
• Harlem Air Shaft
• Like Feeling
• Ravenous At Noon
• Hunter At Dusk
• Lying In Late
• Drifting Out
• The Defeat of Artemis
• Bound South
• South Unbound
• Acknowledgements

About the author

John Wilkinson grew up on the Cornish coast, on Dartmoor, and in boarding schools. He worked in mental health services, in Birmingham, Swansea and London. Subsequently he taught literature and creative writing at the universities of Notre Dame and Chicago. He now lives in Cambridge.

Product details

• Authors: John Wilkinson, Mr John Wilkinson
• Publisher: Salt Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.11.2008
• EAN: 9781844715527
• ISBN: 978-1-84471-552-7
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 114 g
• Series: Salt Modern Poets
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama