WINNER OF THE 2014 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION In this collection acclaimed Jamaican poet Kei Miller dramatizes what happens when one system of knowledge one method of understanding place & territory comes up against another We watch as the cartographer used to the scientific methods of assuming control over a place by mapping it is gradually compelled to recognize--even to envy--a wholly different understanding of place as he tries to map his way to the rastaman's eternal city of Zion As the book unfolds the cartographer learns that on this island of roads that "constrict like throats" every place-name comes freighted with history & not every place that can be named can be found