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Ultima Thule
Contributor(s): McCombs, Davis (Author)

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 ISBN: 0300083173     ISBN-13: 9780300083170
Publisher: Yale University Press
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Binding Type: Paperback
Published: March 2000
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Annotation: This year's winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Davis McCombs's Ultima Thule, which was acclaimed as "a book of exploration, of searching regard . . . a grave, attentive holding of a light" by the contest judge, the distinguished poet W. S. Merwin. The poems are set above and below the Cave Country of south central Kentucky, where McCombs lives and which is home to thousands of caves. The book is framed by two sonnet sequences, the first about a stave guide and explorer at Mammoth Cave in the mid-1800s and the second about McCombs's experiences as a guide and park ranger there in the 1990s. Other poems deal with Mammoth Cave's four-thousand-year human history and the thrills of crawling into tight, rarely visited passageways to see what lies beyond. Often the poems search for oblique angles into personal experience, and the caves and the landscape they create form a personal geology.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
Dewey: 811.54
LCCN: 99052548
Series: Yale Series of Younger Poets
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.53" W x 9.27" L (0.26 lbs) 72 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Southeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation - Kentucky
Awards: National Book Critics Circle Award, Nominee, Poetry, 2000
Review Citations: Booklist 03/15/2000 pg. 1317
Publishers Weekly 04/24/2000 pg. 84
New York Times 06/11/2000 pg. 22
Library Journal 04/15/2001 pg. 102
 
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The 1999 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Davis McCombs's Ultima Thule, which was acclaimed as "a book of exploration, of searching regard.... a grave, attentive holding of a light" by the contest judge, the distinguished poet W. S. Merwin. The poems are set above and below the Cave Country of south central Kentucky, where McCombs lives and which is home to thousands of caves. 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 a guide and park ranger there in the 1990s. Other poems deal with Mammoth Cave's four- thousand-year human history and the thrills of crawling into tight, rarely visited passageways to see what lies beyond. Often the poems search for oblique angles into personal experience, and the caves and the landscape they create form a personal geology.
 
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