Author: Kei Miller
publisher name: Carcanet Press Ltd
ISBN: 9781847772671
"The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion" by Kei Miller, winner of the 2014 Forward Prize for Best Collection, explores the clash of different systems of knowledge and ways of understanding place and territory. The collection follows the journey of a cartographer who, accustomed to scientific methods of mapping and controlling a place, encounters a completely different understanding of place when trying to map his way to the rastaman's eternal city of Zion. Set against the backdrop of an island with roads that "constrict like throats," the cartographer discovers that every place-name carries historical weight, and not every named place can be easily found.
