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050	0	0	_aPS3603.A524 _bI58 2002
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100	1		_aCanaday, John
245	1	4	_aThe invisible world _c/ John Canaday
260			_aBaton Rouge _b: Louisiana State University Press _c, c2002.
300			_a66 p. _c; 24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 63-[64]).
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: Call to Prayer 1 -- I. Entree -- Entree 5 -- Exotic 7 -- Al Badr Street 8 -- Houses Made of Hair 9 -- The Ninth Month 11 -- A True Story 13 -- Sheikh Majnoon 17 -- Shit 18 -- II. Impostors -- Impostors 25 -- III. The Invisible World -- The Invisible World 41 -- The Empty Quarter 44 -- The Hospitality of Sheikh Majnoon 45 -- The Snow Men 46 -- The Seventh Circle 47 -- The House of God 48 -- Third Person 51 -- IV. In Situ -- In Situ 55 -- Sheikh Majnoon in Mufti 56 -- Humid 57 -- A Fast of God's Choosing 59 -- Spring Cleaning 60 -- Song of Myself 61 -- New England Ghazal 62 -- Notes 63 -- Glossary 65.
520			_aWith "the clarity / of a landscape made of single / grains of sand, " the poems in John Canaday's The Invisible World invite readers on a journey through an exotic land, as the narrator travels for more than a year in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan before returning home to New England. Swept along by poetry alive to paradox, we encounter a world in which the Bible and the Qur'an, Eastern and Western traditions, ancient and modern artifacts, mystical and scientific attitudes, meet on equal footing, where a tape recorder perched on a minaret broadcasts the prerecorded cry of a muezzin calling the faithful to prayer. In these poems, the exotic includes not only a world of Bedouin and camels, djinn and ghouls, but also the internal territory of the narrator himself, who alternately feels "like an ambassador of sorts, / albeit penned in tourist class" and a "post-imperial naif / in metaphorical Bermuda shorts." Canaday offers here a complex meditation on the inner and outer nature of journeys and confronts the powerful recognition that the sense of the foreign arises through an inevitable encounter with the self. Confident in both lyric and narrative modes, Canaday's poems create a stunning landscape of words, an invisible world of discovery, memory, and sensation.
650		4	_aPoetry
651		0	_aMiddle East _v--Poetry
651		0	_aIslamic counties _v--Poetry
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