| Description |
viii, 77 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 75). |
| Summary |
"Camille Rankine's debut collection is a series of provocations and explorations. Rankine's short, lyric poems are sharp, agonized, and exquisite, exploring themes of race, doubt, and identity. The collection's sense of continuity and coherence comes through recurring poem types, including "still lifes," "instructions," and "symptoms."From "Symptoms of Aftermath": ... When I am saved, a slim nurse leans out of the white light. I need to hear your voice, sweetheart. I see my escape. I walk into the water. The sky is blue like the ocean, which is blue like the sky. Camille Rankine is the author of the chapbook Slow Dance with Trip Wire, selected by Cornelius Eady for the Poetry Society of America's Chapbook Fellowship. The recipient of a 2010 "Discovery" / Boston Review Poetry Prize and a MacDowell fellowship, her poetry appears in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Tin House, and other publications. Currently, she is assistant director of the MFA program in creative writing at Manhattanville College and lives in Harlem"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
-- 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 -- Still Life with Copernicus and 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 -- The Problem of Death within Life -- Symptoms of Optimism -- Instructions for Modern Graffiti -- Contact -- The Current Isolationism -- Wilt -- Wake -- Symptoms of Aftermath -- 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 Apologie -- Forbearance -- Instructions for the Forest -- Somewhere Else -- Symptoms of Home -- Genealogy -- The Free World -- Dry Harbour -- Syzygy -- We. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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POETRY -- American -- African American.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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Poetry.
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American poetry. -- 21st century.
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| Chronological Term |
2000-2099
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| ISBN |
9781556594908 (paperback) |
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1556594909 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
40025630128 |
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