Nance Van Winckel
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BESIDE OURSELVES
cover image by Susan Bennerstrom
Everything Falls Away The #86 train, its track, and the track’s gully toward the sea, around the mountain, and the mountain falling rock by rock over the track, and across my ancestors’ lifetimes--before the gulls and the Stark White Sand Ages which fell away into the Gray Ages, the Dark Ages. Sea of black anonymity. Those gulls fall. The civilized and the unfed, their cry and feathers falling. First a tremble, a wink of light, a blur. The slide of your palms’ warmth across my cool hipbones. Down. Sea on a Sunday. Coffee in cups from the subdued life. Slow gestures of the gulls, top of the 6th on a radio, and one man out. Heaps of the new world around our feet, which we step out of and fall away from too. BESIDE OURSELVES was published in 2003 with Miami University Press. |
BOOKS OF POEMS
NO STARLING
NO STARLING is Nance's newest collection. It's from The Pacific Northwest Poets Series, edited by Linda Bierds and published in 2007 by the University of Washington Press. SAMPLE POEM
"You People," a poem from NO STARLING
received the Friends of Literature Award from POETRY MAGAZINE. BESIDE OURSELVES
Miami University Press, 2003 “Nance Van Winckel looks into the world’s shattered glass and animates the cultures, histories, human dispositions, and decontextualized landscapes found there. For those who celebrate Keats’s Negative Capability--haunting, reflective, discontinuous--lift this mirror and breathe upon it; from the silvery lake of mystery, light’s brief truth glints.” --Sandra Alcosser BOOKS OF FICTION
Curtain Creek Farm
Linked stories, each told by a resident of a commune in Eastern Washington. SAMPLE SHORT STORY
Black Fields, Black Horses
Originally appeared in AGNI |
