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Book SynopsisThe voice that brings us these poems is multifaceted
Trade 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 *
Table of ContentsPacific Walkers
Signing on with The Daily Sun
Last Address
Briefing
His Other Car Was a Train
John Doe #130969
The River That Runs Above
The River That Runs Beneath
I Too Sip from the Flask
Annunciation
Afraid of My Rays, No One Comes Near
When the River Comes toward Me
Complete Stranger
As Reported
I Take Notes in the Cold
Only As Good As Your Feet
Compromised State
Say What You Will
Retablo
“Outlaw Mentality”
My Weight in Ants
The River Pulls Awake a Morning
Decked Out
They Flee from Me
Unflappable
Apparently Not
Strobe
Coordinates of X
Happy & Terrified When We Wake
II / RAIN ON
Rained On
What Is the Who?
A Man Mistakes Me for a Mannequin
Take Them from Me
A Last Moth of August
My You Mother May I?
Thin Ice
Stopped in the Midst of Going On
Late June, 1960
Write Back When You Can
Canals
Stole (Wedding Photograph, 1911)
On Hudson Street
In Our Minds
Ground into Being
Crypt Window
At Value Village
Song of the Sang-Froid (Who Knocketh?)
I Am My Own Assistant
Once I Had a Badge
I Have My Own Damned Family—Thank You
Very Much—But Theirs Apparently Has Nobody
Nuzzle
Who Died and Made You Our Foreigner?
Coming to Her Senses
The Definite Article
Art Brut
Shut Up & Row
No Sign of My Passing
Acknowledgments
About the Poet
A Note on the Type
