Pacific Walkers - Nance Van Winckel

Pacific Walkers

Poems
Buch | Hardcover
80 Seiten
2013
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-99281-5 (ISBN)
117,20 inkl. MwSt
The voice that brings us these poems is multifaceted
Nance Van Winckel's wry, provocative slant on the world and her command of images and ideas enliven these stunning poems. Presented in two parts, Pacific Walkers first gives imagined voice to anonymous dead individuals, entries in the John Doe network of the Spokane County Medical Examiner's Records. The focus then shifts to named but now-forgotten individuals in a discarded early-1900s photo album purchased in a secondhand store. We encounter figures devoid of history but enduring among us as lockered remains, and figures who come with histories--first names and dates, and faces preserved in photographs--but who no longer belong to anyone.

Nance Van Winckel is the author of five books of poetry, including No Starling and After a Spell, winner of the Washington State Governor's Award for Poetry, and three collections of short stories. Her numerous awards include two National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, and Poetry Magazine's Friends of Literature Award. She lives near Spokane, Washington, with her husband, the artist Rik Nelson.

Pacific Walkers

Signing on with The Daily Sun

Last Address

Briefing

His Other Car Was a Train

John Doe #130969

The River That Runs Above

The River That Runs Beneath

I Too Sip from the Flask

Annunciation

Afraid of My Rays, No One Comes Near

When the River Comes toward Me

Complete Stranger

As Reported

I Take Notes in the Cold

Only As Good As Your Feet

Compromised State

Say What You Will

Retablo

“Outlaw Mentality”

My Weight in Ants

The River Pulls Awake a Morning

Decked Out

They Flee from Me

Unflappable

Apparently Not

Strobe

Coordinates of X

Happy & Terrified When We Wake

II / RAIN ON

Rained On

What Is the Who?

A Man Mistakes Me for a Mannequin

Take Them from Me

A Last Moth of August

My You Mother May I?

Thin Ice

Stopped in the Midst of Going On

Late June, 1960

Write Back When You Can

Canals

Stole (Wedding Photograph, 1911)

On Hudson Street

In Our Minds

Ground into Being

Crypt Window

At Value Village

Song of the Sang-Froid (Who Knocketh?)

I Am My Own Assistant

Once I Had a Badge

I Have My Own Damned Family—Thank You

Very Much—But Theirs Apparently Has Nobody

Nuzzle

Who Died and Made You Our Foreigner?

Coming to Her Senses

The Definite Article

Art Brut

Shut Up & Row

No Sign of My Passing

Acknowledgments

About the Poet

A Note on the Type

Reihe/Serie Pacific Northwest Poetry Series
Verlagsort Seattle
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 295 g
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10 0-295-99281-6 / 0295992816
ISBN-13 978-0-295-99281-5 / 9780295992815
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