DerelictionGabrielle Octavia Rucker Dereliction, Gabrielle Octavia Rucker's debut collection of poetry, moves through childhood and into the afterlife with poems that evoke an artful and urgent sense of the author's "insatiable wandering." With cinematic imagery and formal variation, these poems effortlessly find dream life and myth transforming the daily actions of talking on the phone or finding your reflection in the window. The bracing intimacy of Rucker's

A pioneer in conceptualizing the artists book

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to the great prophetic poems of the war years combined in Trilogy

Haar poëzie is verkennend

Ze loopt door het bos

They are composed entirely of non-sequiturs

voor hem een metafoor voor het leven waartoe hij zich gedwongen voelde

de stad en de natuur

from suffocating relationships and institutions

but will add a new layer as a far more personal and lyrical book than anything she has yet published

the isolation and addiction of COVID lockdown

while others exist only as audio recordings