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- Pacific Walkers: Poems
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- 2015
- Published by: University of Washington Press
- Series: The Pacific Northwest Poetry Series
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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.
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- I / Pacific Walkers
- Last Address
- pp. 4-5
- John Doe #130969
- p. 8
- I Too Sip from the Flask
- pp. 10-11
- Annunciation
- p. 12
- When the River Comes toward Me
- pp. 15-16
- Complete Stranger
- p. 17
- As Reported
- p. 18
- Compromised State
- p. 21
- Say What You Will
- p. 22
- “Outlaw Mentality”
- p. 24
- My Weight in Ants
- p. 25
- Decked Out
- p. 28
- They Flee from Me
- p. 29
- Unflappable
- p. 30
- Apparently Not
- p. 31
- Coordinates of X
- p. 33
- II / RAIN ON
- What Is the Who?
- p. 38
- Take Them from Me
- p. 40
- My You Mother May I?
- p. 42
- Late June, 1960
- p. 45
- On Hudson Street
- p. 50
- In Our Minds
- p. 51
- Ground into Being
- p. 52
- Crypt Window
- p. 53
- At Value Village
- p. 54
- Once I Had a Badge
- p. 58
- Who Died and Made You Our Foreigner?
- pp. 61-62
- Coming to Her Senses
- p. 63
- The Definite Article
- p. 64
- Shut Up & Row
- pp. 66-67
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- p. 69
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