Pacific Walkers

Nance Van Winckel is the author of five books of poetry, including No Starling and After a Spell, winner of the Washington State Governor's Award for Poetry, and three collections of short stories. Her numerous awards include two National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, and Poetry Magazine's Friends of Literature Award. She lives near Spokane, Washington, with her husband, the artist Rik Nelson.

• Pacific WalkersSigning on with The Daily Sun Last Address Briefing His Other Car Was a Train John Doe #130969 The River That Runs AboveThe 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 ONRained 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 YouVery 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

"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)