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Pacific walkers : poems /

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'...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Van Winckel, Nance
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, 2013.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Pacific Northwest poetry series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Pacific Walkers; On; 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; In; 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; Out; Decked Out; They Flee from Me; Unflappable; Apparently Not; Strobe; Coordinates of X.
  • Happy & Terrified When We WakeII. Rain On; 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; In; 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; Out; 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.