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Art Zilleruelo's The Last Map explores language's role as the mediator between humanity and nature. Combining a deep reverence for the power of language with profound anxieties about language's tendency to contaminate that which it represents, these poems reside between the impulse to succumb to the seductive qualities of words and the drive to penetrate through words into the unmediated world. Narrative modes ranging from history to mythology, from folklore to family legends, and from cosmology to apocalyptic eschatology are simultaneously exploited for their aesthetic potency and subjected to skeptical internal critique.