Mapping the Stars: poems

by Rachel Wooley

This debut collection features speakers who are attempting to learn about their surroundings and themselves within various contexts. Geographical locations include Labastide and Paris, Derry and Armagh, Saginaw and Baltimore, and sometimes locations more ethereal, in poems that take the reader off the surface of the planet and into the cosmos. These poems are about transience and permanence, looking back and moving forward, and the exploration of the universe and the self within it.

56 pages, Paperback

First published May 9, 2014

Reviews

[Megan Stolz · Rating 4 out of 5]

I meant to put this on my shelf, but I flipped through it, and suddenly I was sitting on the couch reading the whole thing cover to cover.

I have admired this writer for several years, and I've been looking forward to get debut collection. the collection will inspire wanderlust, and yet the content of the poems are universal -- feelings of loneliness or restlessness, the drive to explore, understanding the space around us.

[Jacob · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent collection of travel poems, focusing on the sense of otherness and placelessness which any wanderer will know.

[Michael B Tager · Rating 5 out of 5]

Review forthcoming.