Poetry. CARTOGRAPHIES OF SILENCE comprises over 100 untitled poem fragments--what the poet calls "unconscious interruptions"--that navigate maps of being/non-being, writing/speaking/thinking, to reveal the mind-body experience where silence meets language.
Author City: SADDLE RIVER, NJ USA
Erik Vatne was born in New Jersey. He holds degrees from Bard College and Trinity College Dublin. His poems have appeared in many print and online journals, including The Paris Review, Barrow Street, Brooklyn Review and Poetry Ireland Review. In 2007 he was shortlisted for the Strokestown International Poetry Prize (Ireland). He continues the ongoing project of renovating his poetry house.
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