Cartographer of Crumpled Maps — Pérez '04 Catalogs & Books and drawing widely from literature

and drawing widely from literature

" these are poems of an American man of color facing down American-made horrors

The neglected cottage is engulfed by the long thorny stems of some unknown plant

as well as the Christian community of Ethiopia

Photograph by Abelardo Morell '71

Cartographer of Crumpled Maps — Pérez '04 Catalogs & Books and drawing widely from literatureBy Jonathan Andrew Prez, Class of 2004 Review Quotes: Jonathan Andrew Perez's The Cartographer of Crumpled Maps cleverly subverts and displaces the idyllic essence of the pastoral in service of an ethics society has consistently betrayed. The poems in this chapbook, occasionally referential yet always original, find their verve in the asymmetry between the beauty of our natural world and the brutality of the systems legal, governmental and cultural