Title: The Catalog of Broken Things
Description: The four conceptual poems in The Catalog of Broken Things question identity in the face of disaster and change, emptiness and encounter. The poems break human experience into basic components: waking, sleeping, loss, memory, imagination, empathy, responsibility to oneself and others. The Catalog combines raw emotional intensity with surreal imagery to explore the notion of “story,” a tool we use to create structure and meaning out of uncertainty.