The Tatters

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The TaTTers Wesleyan PoeTry the tatters Brenda CoulTas Wesleyan universiTy Press | MiddleToWn, ConneCTiCuT Wesleyan University Press Middletown CT 06459 www.wesleyan.edu/wespress© 2014 Brenda Coultas All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed by Mindy Basinger Hill Typeset in Parkinson Electra Pro Wesleyan University Press is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Coultas, Brenda. [Poems. Selections] The tatters / Brenda Coultas. pages cm. ISBN 978-0-8195-7419-0 (cloth : alk. paper) (Wesleyan Poetry Series) I. Title. PS3603.O886A6 2014 811'.6—dc23 5 4 3 2 1 "Cover artwork: Spiderweb Rose, image by Portia Munson, 2009." dediCaTed To The MeMory of Brad Will Brad Will was a poet, Indymedia journalist, anarchist, and a friend of mine. He was murdered in Oaxaca, Mexico, on October 27, 2006, while filming a street battle between the Oaxaca governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz’s thugs and APPO, the Popular Assembly of the People, during a months-long teachers’ strike in which at least eleven were killed. For more information: www.friendsofbradwill.org. ...