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Nowhere to Arrive takes as its subjects the whiplash of travel, the
shuttling between disparate places and climes, and an unremitting
sense of dislocation. These poems court the tension between the
familiar and the foreign, between the self as distinct and the self
as illusory. They look plainly at the startling strangeness of
varied landscapes and mindscapes, and interrogate a state of
unrootedness - one thrown into relief by the speaker's years abroad
in Southeast Asia. At the chapbook's center are two long poems,
titled "Phnom Penh Diptych: Wet Season" and "Phnom Penh Diptych:
Dry Season," that examine the escapist narratives that draw
tourists and expatriates to Cambodia, and the speaker's own
privileged positioning. On a formal level, the poems in Nowhere to
Arrive make room for the unsaid and that which cannot be
articulated. Here, we have a vocabulary of silence alongside stark
imagistic juxtapositions, poems that celebrate compression and the
force of paratactic constructions. Attentiveness and concentration
emerge as virtues, as the speaker surveys the vast territory of the
present with a wakeful gaze.
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