The Errancy

Jorie Graham’s invention of her distinct literary style makes it possible to assume the complicated glamour of her poems is an examination of a deeper importance. In her more recent book, The Errancy, Graham explicitly rests upon the reader a sense of uneasiness as she explores the course of consciousness through its various guises: spiritual, sexual, ethical, and epistemological. This quest for truth is rooted in her theme of desire. The world through her eyes is rendered into her poems of desire. By breaking down and reforming boundaries in her poetic structure, The Errancy has emerged as an outlet of her interminable epistemological and metaphysical quest to seek meaning and wholeness. Through the investigation of “The Errancy,” “Studies in Secrecy,” and “Le Manteau de Pascal,” the unraveling of the truth will shed light into the philosophical search Graham is concerned about.
The choice of “The Errancy” to be the title of Graham’s collection of poem...