Deep Travel
“Deep Travel” brings together the work of thirty-four contemporary American poets whose art and whose lives have been significantly enriched by distant journeys. Covering landscapes ranging widely, from Antarctica to Zagreb, from Italy to India to Iraq, these intelligent and intensely felt poems generously weave the reader into the lush diversity of word and world. The book includes poems by Pulitzer Prize-winners as well as mid-career and emerging writers. Participating poets have also contributed original prose statements on how travel has deepened their work, their understanding of poetry’s aesthetic and human value, and their sense of the “Other” and themselves.
“Exploring both geographic and aesthetic space, the poems in ‘Deep Travel’ are poems of intelligence and empathy, of roots and wandering,” said Meek. “They weave their readers across artificial boundaries into an unbounded world. Without such crossings, we would remain forever separate, forever less.”
Sandra Meek is the author of two books of poems, “Nomadic Foundations” (2002) and “Burn” (2005), as well as a chapbook, “The Circumference of Arrival” (2001). In 2003, she was awarded the Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry and the Peace Corps Writers Award in Poetry, both for “Nomadic Foundations,” a book largely arising from her experiences living in Manyana, Botswana, where she was a Peace Corps volunteer from 1989-1991, and her travels through southern Africa. Her second book, “Burn,” earned her a second Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry in 2006. Her poems have appeared widely, in such literary journals as “Agni,” “Conjunctions,” “Green Mountains Review,” “Mid-American Review,” “The Iowa Review,” “The Kenyon Review,” “Prairie Schooner,” “Poetry,” and “Quarterly West.” She has also published essays and reviews on contemporary African, Caribbean, and U. S. literature. A co-founding editor of Ninebark Press, Sandra Meek is an associate professor at Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia, where she teaches creative writing and contemporary literature.
to purchase Deep Travel
Copies of “Deep Travel” are available at Rome Area Council for the Arts (RACA), 248 Broad Street, in historic downtown Rome. RACA serves as the parent organization for Ninebark Press. Tax-deductible contributions designated for Ninebark Press may be addressed to: RACA/Ninebark Press, P. O. Box 203, Rome, Georgia 30162. Book orders may also be mailed to: Ninebark Press, 3 Central Plaza, Box 356, Rome, GA 30161. For questions regarding credit card payment, course adoption, and large orders, email Allen Bell at Romearts@aol.com or Sandra Meek at smeek@berry.edu.
Donations to Ninebark Press should be mailed to: RACA/Ninebark Press, P. O. Box 203, Rome, Georgia 30162. Checks for both orders and donations should be written to RACA/Ninebark Press.
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