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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. ** Review "Van Winckel's intersections of then and now, other and us, are the stuff of real poetry."―Mike Dillon, City Living "These moving poems span a multifaceted range of narrators."― Publishers Weekly , January 2013 Review "An exquisite collection. Those who love stories; those who are interested in ways of thinking about memory, the passing of time, family history, old photographs; and those who enjoy just hovering for a moment in the beauty of arresting details and language will be eager readers of Pacific Walkers ."―Nancy Eimers, aut

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Author

Nance Van Winckel; Dustin Kilgore

Publisher

University of Washington Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780295992815

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.35 / 5 (17 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14