Library of small catastrophes / Alison C. Rollins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rollins, Alison C., author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

viii, 93 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Drawing from Jorge Luis Borges' fascination with the library, Rollins uses the concept of the archive to offer a lyric history of the ways in which we process loss. "Memory is about the future, not the past," she writes, and rather than shying away from the anger, anxiety, and mourning of her narrators, Rollins's poetry seeks to challenge the status quo, engaging in a diverse, boundary-defying dialogue with an ever-present reminder of the ways race, sexuality, spirituality, violence, and American culture collide."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

I

A Woman of Means p. 5

Skinning Ghosts Alive p. 7

Original [sin] p. 9

Mis-ery p. 12

Fultz Quadruplets p. 13

Child Witness p. 15

Lost Causes p. 17

On All Fours p. 18

Water No Get Enemy p. 19

Path of Totality p. 21

Self-Portrait of Librarian with T.S. Eliot's Papers p. 22

To Whoever Is Reading Me p. 23

All the World Began with a Yes p. 24

II

Library of Babel p. 29

Free Radical p. 30

Librarian p. 32

Ophiocordyceps unilateralis p. 34

Code Talkers p. 35

Report from inside a White Whale p. 38

Elephants Born without Tusks p. 39

Portrait of a Pack Horse Librarian p. 41

Fiery Young Colored Girl p. 42

A Valid Archive p. 43

Public Domain p. 44

Library of Small Catastrophes p. 46

And Then There Were None p. 50

Oral Fixation p. 51

Five and a Possible p. 54

How Not to Remember p. 56

III

Born [again] p. 59

Mer-cy p. 60

Cento for Not Quite Love p. 61

Viva Voce p. 65

For You p. 66

Beastangel p. 68

A Rock Trying to Stand p. 70

Why Is We Americans p. 73

Manifesto, or Ars Poetica #3 p. 75

Word of Month p. 76

Overkill p. 79

What Is Tragedy? p. 81

Object Permanence p. 82.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781556595394

1556595395

OCLC:

1049575339