BOOK FORMAT Paperback, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 152 pgs / 102 bw.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 5/31/2013 Out of print
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2013 p. 71
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9781938221026TRADE List Price: $32.00 CDN $40.00
AVAILABILITY Not available
TERRITORY WORLD
Geographer Dennis Wood's maps of Boylan Heights in Raleigh, North Carolina are a new kind of map-making, a cross between sociology and art. This 2nd edition includes original essays by Ander Monson and Albert Mobilio and an interview with Blake Butler.
Introduction by Ira Glass. Text by Albert Mobilio, Ander Monson. Interview by Blake Butler.
The acclaimed geographer Denis Wood has written numerous books (including the influential bestseller The Power of Maps) that reorient his readers to our neighborhoods, homes and bodies. At the heart of Wood’s investigations is a near-legendary endeavor: the Boylan Heights maps, begun in 1982, and first presented in Everything Sings (2010). Surveying his century-old, half-square mile neighborhood Boylan Heights in Raleigh, North Carolina, Wood began by paring away the inessential “map crap” (scale, orientation, street grids), then found elegant ways to represent such phenomena as radio waves permeating the air, the light cast by street lights and Halloween pumpkins on porches. As radio host Ira Glass writes in his introduction to this volume, “we see which homes have wind chimes and which ones call the cops. We see the route of the letter carrier and the life cycle of the daily paper. Wood is writing a novel where we never meet the main characters, but their stuff is everywhere.” This second edition includes eight new maps (including one of barking dogs!), other new visual material plus original essays by Ander Monson and Albert Mobilio and an interview with Blake Butler that appeared in a more abbreviated form in The Believer.
Featured image is reproduced from Denis Wood: Everything Sings, 2nd Revised Edition.
FORMAT: Pbk, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 152 pgs / 102 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $32.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $40 ISBN: 9781938221026 PUBLISHER: Siglio AVAILABLE: 5/31/2013 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of print AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: WORLD
Denis Wood: Everything Sings, 2nd Revised Edition Maps for a Narrative Atlas
Published by Siglio. Introduction by Ira Glass. Text by Albert Mobilio, Ander Monson. Interview by Blake Butler.
The acclaimed geographer Denis Wood has written numerous books (including the influential bestseller The Power of Maps) that reorient his readers to our neighborhoods, homes and bodies. At the heart of Wood’s investigations is a near-legendary endeavor: the Boylan Heights maps, begun in 1982, and first presented in Everything Sings (2010). Surveying his century-old, half-square mile neighborhood Boylan Heights in Raleigh, North Carolina, Wood began by paring away the inessential “map crap” (scale, orientation, street grids), then found elegant ways to represent such phenomena as radio waves permeating the air, the light cast by street lights and Halloween pumpkins on porches. As radio host Ira Glass writes in his introduction to this volume, “we see which homes have wind chimes and which ones call the cops. We see the route of the letter carrier and the life cycle of the daily paper. Wood is writing a novel where we never meet the main characters, but their stuff is everywhere.” This second edition includes eight new maps (including one of barking dogs!), other new visual material plus original essays by Ander Monson and Albert Mobilio and an interview with Blake Butler that appeared in a more abbreviated form in The Believer.
