Castles and Islands is the fourth book of poetry/second photobook by Joshua Edwards. It collects work made during travels around Europe, Asia, and the Americas, for friends, collaborators, and ghosts.

Castles and Islands

Literature & Fiction

Edwards, Joshua

Poetry

Liang Editions

About the Author\nJoshua Edwards (Galveston Island) is the author of THE DOUBLE LAMP OF SOLITUDE (Rising Tide Projects, 2021), Architecture for Travelers and Imperial Nostalgias, among other poetry collections, and a photobook, PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN AT ONE-HOUR INTERVALS DURING A WALK FROM GALVESTON ISLAND TO THE WEST TEXAS TOWN OF MARFA (Edition Solitude, 2014); and he translated María Baranda's Ficticia. He directs Canarium Books and teaches at Pratt Institute and Columbia University.\nEmerging from walks taken by the author from the birthplaces to the deathsites of three poets (Hölderlin, Lorca, and Hernández), THE DOUBLE LAMP OF SOLITUDE is a collection of poems, prose, translations, and images that meditate on time, relationships, reading, society, and solitude. 
Poetry. Art. Photography.

The Double Lamp of Solitude

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Rising Tide Projects / Canarium Books

Spirit and Liberty: From Freedom To Liberty With Jesus

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

10-10-10- Publishing

Poetry. IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS is the second collection by poet and translator Joshua Edwards. Written in Mexico, China, Germany, Nicaragua, and during a train trip around the U.S. and Canada, the book reckons with itinerancy, innocence, and American privilege, while pointing toward a strange horizon. "'Through a turnstile, past a diorama / of ruins, into the ruins themselves,' Joshua Edwards escorts us into the desert of the real in his haunting and prismatic second collection, IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS. Deepening the archaeological excavation—or is it a salvage operation?—of his first book, CAMPECHE, Edwards brushes the dust from the remains of history, desire, and nostalgia itself, to reveal 'ruins as diorama, ruins as sculpture, / birds as music boxes. Everything / moves toward metaphor and dream.' A breathtaking cascade of parables, images, lyrics, and aphorisms, IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS is necessary work, and required reading for anyone who has felt the cold undertow beneath all beauty. 'Life,' writes this poet, 'is terrible enough without swans.'"—Srikanth Reddy Symbolic gestures feel bound not by referential expression, but by mystery and drama. If all languages are essentially alike, then softness or firmness is a matter of tissues in which blood takes a clausal complement. Taste for etymology, however, comes from the poetry of crucial decision making, fruit in one hand and broad-bladed knife in the other.

Imperial Nostalgias

Ugly Duckling Presse

Poetry. Photography. Titled after pirate Jean Lafitte's name for Galveston Island, CAMPECHE is a cautionary lyric composed of poems and photographs in which a real place is overlaid with the parable of a mythical world on the verge of an apocalyptic flood. Like the body fishermen of the Yellow River, this book combs water for remains and meditates on evidence, while attempting to reckon with the self as a troubled song within a greater song. "If the soul is a souvenir in human shape, / the sun is half its shadow and discloses / who is what when in public." This is the first book of Joshua Edwards's eschatological trilogy.

Campeche

Noemi Press

Literary Nonfiction. Art. Photography. While walking from his birthplace on the island of Galveston to the town of Marfa, where he and his wife will build their own home, poet Joshua Edwards took a photograph at the end of each hour of walking with the constraints of using only available light and a fixed lens. This book collects all 230 photographs from the 680-mile trip. This book serves as a companion to a collection of poems and travel pieces, ARCHITECTURE FOR TRAVELERS, also published by Edition Solitude.

Photographs Taken at One-Hour Intervals During a Walk from Galveston Island to the West Texas Town of Marfa

Edition Solitude

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