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Library of Small Catastrophes
- Author
- Alison C. Rollins
- Narrator
- Janina Edwards
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Publish Date
- 18 September 2019
- Run Time
- 1 hour 22 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Poetry
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- Author
- Alison C. Rollins
- Narrator
- Janina Edwards
- Duration
- 1 hour 22 minutes
- Release Date
- 18 September 2019
- ISBN
- 9781684576142
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Genre
- Poetry
Synopsis
Library of Small Catastrophes, Alison Rollins's ambitious debut collection, interrogates the body and nation as storehouses of countless tragedies. Drawing from Jorge Luis Borges's 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.
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