Change of Maps

Carolyne Wright has published eight books and chapbooks of poetry including Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire, a collection of essays, and three volumes of poetry translated from Bengali and Spanish. She lives in Seattle, where she serves on the faculty of the Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA Program.

Formally elegant, thematically intelligent, urgent and thoughtful, A Change of Maps traverses the American landscape--its primal beauty and human diminishment--and explores the tensions in the nature of this country, its mix of cultures, and its losses both national and personal. In these brilliant and intuitive poems, Carolyne Wright reflects on love and independence, love and work, choices made in youth and the larger awarenesses that enable the world and the species to continue." - Betsy Sholl