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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