Pacific walkers : poems

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Title:

Pacific walkers : poems

Author:

Van Winckel, Nance, author.

Series:

Pacific Northwest poetry series.

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

72 pages ; 25 cm.

Genre:

Poetry.

Publisher:

University of Washington Press,

Publication Date:

2013

ISBN:

9780295992815

Publication Information:

Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, 2013.

Call Number:

811 VANWINC

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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.

Author Notes

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.

I Pacific Walkers
On: Signing on with The Daily Sun	p. 3
Last Address	p. 4
Briefing	p. 6
His Other Car Was a Train	p. 7
John Doe #130969	p. 8
The River That Runs Above The River That Runs Beneath	p. 9
I Too Sip from the Flask	p. 10
Annunciation	p. 12
Afraid of My Rays, No One Comes Near	p. 13
In: When the River Comes toward Me	p. 15
Complete Stranger	p. 17
As Reported	p. 18
I Take Notes in the Cold	p. 19
Only As Good As Your Feet	p. 20
Compromised State	p. 21
Say What You Will	p. 22
Retablo	p. 23
"Outlaw Mentality"	p. 24
My Weight in Ants	p. 25
The River Pulls Awake a Morning	p. 26
Out Decked Out	p. 28
They Flee from Me	p. 29
Unflappable	p. 30
Apparently Not	p. 31
Strobe	p. 32
Coordinates of X	p. 33
Happy & Terrified When We Wake	p. 34
II Rain On
On: Rained On	p. 37
What Is the Who?	p. 38
A Man Mistakes Me for a Mannequin	p. 39
Take Them from Me	p. 40
A Last Moth of August	p. 41
My You Mother May I?	p. 42
Thin Ice	p. 43
Stopped in the Midst of Going On	p. 44
Late June, 1960	p. 45
Write Back When You Can	p. 46
In: Canals	p. 48
Stole (Wedding Photograph, 1911)	p. 49
On Hudson Street	p. 50
In Our Minds	p. 51
Ground into Being	p. 52
Crypt Window	p. 53
At Value Village	p. 54
Song of the Sang-Froid (Who Knocketh?)	p. 55
I Am My Own Assistant	p. 56
Out Once I Had a Badge	p. 58
I Have My Own Damned Family-Thank You Very Much-But Theirs Apparently Has Nobody	p. 59
Nuzzle	p. 60
Who Died and Made You Our Foreigner?	p. 61
Coining to Her Senses	p. 63
The Definite Article	p. 64
Art Brut	p. 65
Shut Up & Row	p. 66
No Sign of My Passing	p. 68
Acknowledgments	p. 69
About the Poet	p. 71
A Note on the Type	p. 72

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