HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS		QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced] Author: Keyword(s): Year:  Vol:  Page:

This Article Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Download to citation manager Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Kaytes, J. Search for Related Content

GeoTropes: Memory and Surface

Geo: A combining form meaning "the earth"

Trope: Any literary or rhetorical device that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense

GeoTropes are poems that use concepts in geomorphology to express the dynamic nature of occupying landscapes. Geomorphology is the study of the evolution and configuration of landforms: the study of the ground. The use of the scientific language of the ground to communicate how humans experience the ground is a vehicle for understanding how people inhabit and are products of landscape processes. These GeoTropes pertain to the implicit tensions among memory, desire and space making.