About the Book
A poetic charting of Laura Walker's rural southern hometown Rimertown/an atlas delves into the startling landscapes created by the passage of time through people and through place; it is an atlas born of image and voice. Composed of four interwoven strands—a collection of "maps," a collection of "stories," a series of vernacular prose poems and a fractured narrative—the volume explores various geographies: of the physical world of the intersection of natural and peopled landscapes of the passage of time of leaving and returning of human relationships of soldiers and war. Walker asks: how is "home" carried in memory in landscape in story in time? Her poems break and merge stitching and fragmenting narrative syntax and image as they push toward their own geography "a fever doll tapered song/ engineered into dusk/ hold the watery stream its buck and clanging."