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Middle of Nowhere: Poems & Images from the C&O Canal

Authored by George Owens, Photographs by Paul N. Jean

List Price: $19.95
8.5″ x 11″ (21.59 x 27.94 cm)
Full Color on white paper
108 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1467972420
ISBN-10: 1467972428

BISAC: Poetry / American / General

Middle of Nowhere contains the collective efforts of a poet and photographer, both inspired by the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal and neighboring Potomac River.

The C&O Canal is an American paradox: a paradise found in the Mid-Atlantic megalopolis, fully accessible but largely unknown and unknowable. While millions have visited the eastern gateways of Georgetown and Great Falls, this book explores the vast stretches upriver. Presented in a gallery style, poems and images come from a place where the past, as William Faulkner observed, has never left the present.

Poet George Owens travels the edges of the canal in search of its secrets. Through his quests come three poignant sets of poems providing lyric paths to love, the onset of age, and transcendence.

Photographer Paul Jean has been led into the backwoods of the C&O Canal region, to sights that challenge the boundaries of the natural world. From his treks come two sequences of captivating images.

This edition is accompanied by notes from Professor Kevin Dungey of Johns Hopkins University.