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Incorrect Merciful Impulses - by Camille Rankine (Paperback)

Incorrect Merciful Impulses - by  Camille Rankine (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This debut volume introduces a powerful new voice that focuses on doubt, identity, and the fractious, modern world.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>A poet to watch.--<i>O Magazine</i></p><p>I tell the truth, but I try to be kind about it.--Camille Rankine in <i>12 Questions</i></p><p>Named a poet to watch by <i>O Magazine</i>, Camille Rankine's debut collection is a series of provocations and explorations. Rankine's short, lyric poems are sharp, agonized, and exquisite, exploring themes of doubt and identity. The collection's sense of continuity and coherence comes through recurring poem types, including still lifes, instructions, and symptoms.</p><p><b>From Symptoms of Aftermath: </b></p><p><i>...When I am saved, a slim nurse<br>leans out of the white light. I need<br>to hear your voice, sweetheart. I see<br>my escape. I walk into the water.<br>The sky is blue like the ocean, <br>which is blue like the sky.</i></p><p><b>Camille Rankine </b>is the author of the chapbook <i>Slow Dance with Trip Wire</i>, selected by Cornelius Eady for the Poetry Society of America's Chapbook Fellowship. The recipient of a 2010 Discovery / Boston Review Poetry Prize and a MacDowell fellowship, her poetry appears in <i>Boston Review</i>, <i> Denver Quarterly</i>, <i>Tin House</i>, and other publications. Currently, she is assistant director of the MFA program in creative writing at Manhattanville College and lives in Harlem.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Camille Rankine is the author of Slow Dance with Trip Wire, selected by Cornelius Eady for the Poetry Society of America's Chapbook Fellowship. The recipient of a 2010 "Discovery" / Boston Review Poetry Prize and a MacDowell fellowship, her poetry appears in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Tin House, and other publications. Currently, she is Assistant Director of the M.F.A program in Creative Writing at Manhattanville College and lives in New York City.<br>

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