Andalucia by Andrew and Suzanne Edwards (I.B. Taurus, $25) Reviewed by Nina Lewallen Hufford Now that we all travel with smartphones—with Google maps, Yelp, Trip Advisor, and Expedia at our fingertips—heavy, text-driven guidebooks...
Farsickness Journal features “Inscription,” a place poem by Kathy Fagan.
On Peter Gizzi’s “It Was Raining in Delft”: A poem featuring “the heightened, stripped-bare world of the sleep-deprived traveler.”
June in the San Francisco Bay Area marks my family regularly heading West -- from our already very westerly home in quasi-urban Berkeley, over to the wildernesses of Marin County, where we hike and bike in the exquisite, dramatic protected spaces that constitute 80%...
Having wandered through my share of vast, eerily deserted archaeological sites, I was pulled in by the first line of Ernest Hilbert's poem, "Dusk in the Ruins": "I arrive, one more uninvited guest." With this unsentimental tone established, the speaker explores...
“The story is organically American, and like all great fairy tales pulls from deeper sources. The fact that it is framed as travel adventure—forced travel at that—tugs at deep cultural memories.”
I have always been fascinated by the way Emily Dickinson -- legendary for rarely traveling beyond her western Massachusetts backyard -- populates her poems with so many exotic locales. And she does so with such playful abandon, as if the place-names are her own vast...
This poem jumped out at me in a recent issue of the literary journal, Southwest Review, thanks to its unlikely subject-matter -- it's the first poem I've ever run across about a motorcycle rally. But I love the way the poem rushes headlong into the strange,...
I'm planning a trip to New York -- I almost wrote, "home" to New York, though I haven't lived there in years -- where my family and I will be staying way downtown, in the thick of Manhattan's original streets. It got me thinking about Columbus Park -- not far from...
