Incorrect Merciful Impulses
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Port Townsend
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9781619321496
Subjects: American poetry
Description: This debut volume introduces a powerful new voice that focuses on doubt, identity, and the fractious, modern world.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Note to Reader; Dedication; Contents; One; Tender; Symptoms of Prophecy; Still Life with Spurious Picturesque; Dear Enemy:; Symptoms of Island; Still Life Mechanical; Ex Machina; Letter to the Winding-Sheet; History; Necessity Defense of Institutional Memory; Always Bring Flowers; Fireblight; On the Motion of Animals; Symptoms of Sympathy; Two; Still Life with Copernicus & Hypnophobia; Papier-Mâché and Other Human Resources; Vespertine; Failed Human Experiment; After the Fire, I Ask Myself; Symptoms of Prey; Outliving; Still Life with House Finch.; title: The Problem of Death within LifeSymptoms of Optimism; Instructions for Modern Graffiti; Contact; The Current Isolationism; Wilt; Wake; Symptoms of Aftermath; Three; The Increasing Frequency of Black Swans; Symptoms of Doctrine; Possession; Battle Damage Assessment; The Great Dying; From the Ground; Lament for the Living; Matter in Retreat; Little Children, My Apologies; Forbearance; Instructions for the Forest; Somewhere Else; Symptoms of Home; Genealogy; The Free World; Dry Harbour; Syzygy; We; Notes; About the Author; Also by Camille Rankine; Acknowledgments; Copyright; Special Thanks.