Ultima Thule by Davis Mccombs

Ultima Thule by Davis Mccombs

The poems in this collection are set above and below the Cave Country of south central Kentucky. The book is framed by two sonnet sequences, the first about a slave guide and explorer at Mammoth Cave in the mid-1800s and the second about McCombs's experiences as guide/park ranger in the 1990s.

“[McCombs] lucidly mines Kentucky’s cave country. . . Throughout, Mammoth’s fantastical underworld—a place of ‘eyeless fish,’ dripstone nodules that ‘live and grow, and when struck, produce/melodious tones, liquid and wavering,’ boat rides on subterranean rivers reminiscent of ‘Styx, Lethe’—is calmly revealed through McCombs’s translucent, musical language. . . . The rough geology of the landscape . . . and the discovery of its shape . . . become urgent images that strikingly illuminate darkened interior spaces.”—Megan Harlan, New York Times Book Review

Selected as a finalist for the 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award in the Poetry category

Davis McCombs received a B.A. in 1993 from Harvard University and an M.F.A. from the University of Virginia in 1995. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University from 1996 to 1998. His poem “The River and Under the River” was featured in The Best American Poetry 1996; other work has appeared in the Missouri Review, no roses review, and the Columbia Poetry Review.

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ISBN 13	9780300083170
ISBN 10	0300083173
Title	Ultima Thule
Author	Davis Mccombs
Series	Yale Series Of Younger Poets
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Yale University Press
Year published	2000-04-03
Number of pages	72
Prizes	Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry) 2000
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.