Description
In Human Geographies, Megan Muthupandiyan turns her focus toward an exploration of how sacred and secular travel destinations become conduits of culture, meaning, and interpersonal relationships. Featuring poems written during her travels on four continents, the volume celebrates how body/memory can give rise to a felt intimacy everywhere.
Human Geographies is rooted in a multimedia travel project involving photography and poetry which Muthupandiyan started nearly three decades ago. Featuring GPS coordinates which direct readers to the place that has inspired each poem, it is a companion to Muthupandiyan’s award winning Of the Earth and Other Desires.
Reviews:
“In Human Geographies, Megan Muthupandiyan takes us on an intimate tour of sacred places. Richly detailed, these poems celebrate and question our connections and separations while demonstrating Meg’s skill as a lyrical poet. Poems of place and no place. Poems in time and out of time. They speak both a confession and a declaration while telling us, ‘We were here.’” —Tim Moder, author of The Angel of Coincidence
“The extraordinary attention to language in Muthupandiyan’s poems is often what makes me want to reread. She unearths geographies for us.” —Gail Goepfert, author of This Hard Business of Living, in a review of Of the Earth and Other Desires
Sarah Wilkinson (verified owner) –
This gem of a poetry book captures my heart as one who loves to travel. I love that the Poet adds GPS coordinates to each poem so the reader can enter those coordinates in to see exactly where she was inspired. Speaking of inspiration, the poet makes you feel like you are behind her eyes with her, taking in the view in beautifully written detail, and how she writes you can picture exactly what she is tuning in to and what she is observing as well as how it makes her feel.
She reminds the reader to be completely present and soak in the places you visit and occupy. A great poetry book that captures observations with an exquisite use of words.