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  • Landerlunden
  • Nance Van Winckel (bio)

Anywhere I go in America, my mother’s been there too, or so she says. Lived there. Vacationed there. Even a city I make up: Landerlunden. Oh yes, it was full of lilacs. You girls rode your bikes around a park there. And on she goes until slowly it slides into my view too. Was there a forest encircling it? Yes, and those foxes and their tracks we followed out from town, us carrying those awful pistols, and what a racket in the trees when the hounds flushed the pretty red one. Honey, I want you to have the stole we made from him. Remember it? His mouth is a little clip that opens and closes like this: {here her hand becomes a snout, biting}. [End Page 29]

Nance Van Winckel

Nance Van Winckel had two new books out in 2013: Pacific Walkers, her sixth collection of poems, and Boneland, her fourth book of linked stories. The recipient of two NEA Poetry Fellowships and awards from the Poetry Society of America, Poetry, and Prairie Schooner, she has new work from a (text-based photo-collage) novel in Kenyon Review Online and Hotel Amerika. She teaches in the low-residency MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives near Spokane, Washington.

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