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A Map of Faring

Peter Riley

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A Map of Faring

Peter Riley

Free Verse Editions
Edited by Jon Thompson

Information and Pricing
ISBN 1-932559-59-0 (Paper; $12.00, £6.50); 1-932559-60-4 (Cloth; $24.00, £13.00) 1-932559-61-2 (Adobe eBook; $12.00, £5.50)

Visit Peter Riley's website for more on A Map of Faring, his other books, and new poetry.

Description
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.

About the Author
Peter Riley is a leading poet in Britain. His collections of poetry and other writings include Love-Strife Machine (1969), The Linear Journal (1973), Lines on the Liver (1981), Track and Mineshafts (1983), Snow Has Settled . . . Bury Me Here (1997), Passing Measures: Selected Poems (2001), Alstonefield: A Poem (2004), and Excavations (2004).

From A Map of Faring

Lines at Night /1

Back at evening, a stone room full
mainly of fireplace. We burn
olive roots, dry thyme, as night
gathers outside we finish
the wine, foot on sill.

Everything we touch grates
with dust and the fire
crackles and flares up.
The fire dies down, the fields
outside are gradually closed.
A speaking darkness surrounds us

And you are in it, and the light
you hold in there, is that a belief?
What else could it be?

About the Series
Free Verse Editions
Edited by Jon Thompson

Free Verse Editions is a joint venture between Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics and Parlor Press. The series will publishes three to five books of poetry per year, collections that use language to dramatize a singular vision of experience, a mastery of craft, a deep knowledge of poetic tradition, and a willingness to take risks. Please review the series description for more information.

Contents
Acknowledgments
Two Setts and Coda
First Sett
Second Sett
Coda: 14 Poems

The Towns Along the Tisa
Kalotaszeg
The Crowd Yelled out for More
Pilliszántlaszló
Frustovento
Schiele
Stuck in Vienna for Two Weeks Watching
CNN every Night
Room 40, Früstuckepension Caroline,
Gudrunstraße 138, Wein 9
A Cold Room in Granada
Terezín
After Terezín
Alstonefield, after Dinner
Across Central Europe
Am Weiße Roß

Afterword to Two Setts and Coda
Notes

Noon Province

The Night Train Arrives at Dawn
Market Day at Apt
Fragments at Les Bassacs (arriving)
Les Bassacs (d)
Roofwatch
Afterthought
Stubborn Interval
St-Saturnin, the Ridge
Meditations in the Fields /1–3
The Walk to Roussillon
Lines at Night /1
Lines at the Pool above St.-Saturnin
Meditations in the Field /4
Lines at Night /2
Lacoste
Recalling Lacoste (lines at night /3)
Escape from Our Uncaring
Up the Big Hill and Back by Ten
Counting the Cost (Syllables at Night)
The Walk Back to Gordes (lines) or Resolution and
Interdependence
Numbers at Les Croagnes
Just a Song (lines at night /5)
Notes on the Attempt to Visit Lorand Gaspar
The Slower Walk to Roussillon with Kathy
The Telephone Box on the Edge of the Cornfield
Last Night
Orange to Chartres
Slow Meditation in the Café-Bar Les Caves du Mont Anis, le Puy

Afterword to Noon Province
Notes

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