Poetry by Mark McMorris
February 2, 2010 • 6 x 9 • 90 pages • 978-1-56689-236-0
Missives from the entrepôt—or port city—where 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 art—engaging a world that has experienced “continuous combat since Helen gave Paris a flower / at least since the Bronze Age of Agamemnon’s armada.”
About the Author
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Mark McMorris is an award-winning poet whose books include Entrepôt 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.