My Reef My Manifest Array (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781784106911)

In 1487, Sir Henry Bodrugan, pursued for treason, leapt from a Cornish clifftop into a waiting boat and fled to France. Bodrugan's Leap, as the clifftop has come to be known, lies close to John Wilkinson's childhood home, and supplies the title for the central cycle of poems in My Reef My Manifest Array. That totemic image of exile feeds an interest in borders and partings that runs throughout the collection. The Cornish landscape of the poet's childhood, loaded with new significance following the death of his sister, is Wilkinson's primary locus, but he ventures--flees, perhaps--farther afield, to Portland (Maine), Chicago, Sydney, and Busan. Combining extended sequences with brief lyrics, Wilkinson's lines tie minuscule linguistic knots that give pleasure when unwoven. The reading becomes archaeological as layers and layers of meaning, of feeling, of reason are exposed.

Author: John Wilkinson
ISBN-10: 1784106917
ISBN-13: 9781784106911
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Language: English
Published: 03/30/2019
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.70d