In Cartography and Walking, Adam Dickinson charts his own listening — an acute listening of eye and ear, a listening with both body and mind. Cartography is more than a metaphor for him; it's a way of being. It is how we dwell in the world, and how intimacy enriches such dwelling. Yet cartography is the presiding metaphor, the structure of this book; in giving it such a place, Dickinson reminds the reader of that very human impulse to plot, to imagine. Each poem is itself a kind of mapping, through language and sound, through minute observation, until land, love and everyday life are given new embodiment, are newly discovered and a reader finds new countries in strangely familiar settings. (From Brick Books)