Denis Wood: Everything Sings, 2nd Revised Edition: Maps for a Narrative Atlas

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The acclaimed geographer Denis Wood has written a large number of books (including the influential bestseller The Power of Maps) that reorient his readers to our neighborhoods, homes and bodies. On 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 started by paring away the inessential “map crap” (scale, orientation, street grids), then found elegant how you can 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 of them call the cops. We see the route of the letter carrier and the life cycle of the day-to-day paper. Wood is writing a novel where we never meet the primary characters, but their stuff is in every single place.” This second edition includes eight new maps (including certainly one of barking dogs!), other new visual material plus original essays by Ander Monson and Albert Mobilio and an interview with Blake Butler that seemed in a more abbreviated form in The Believer.

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