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Humorous, quirky, and spiritually meditative by turns, Cathryn Hankla's prose poems move by associative leaps and take their inspirations from cultural and personal icons. A shadow narrative moors the collection in the perspective of a woman who survives a difficult childhood to eventually comprehend the paradoxes of adult life and whose journeys into her heritage bring her to a fuller realization of her place in the world. Travels to Prague and Paris, allusions to literary, spiritual, artistic, and political figures, local and familial lore -- all become ready touchstones for the revelation of feeling and reevaluations of identity and the nature of freedom.

While recognizing the danger in exploration, Hankla takes pleasure in questioning the status quo and takes issue with those who sidestep emotional or intellectual adversities by affecting apathy. In the tide poem, the huge cache of the Louvre is searched, not for the famed Mona Lisa or Egyptian antiquities, but in a metaphorical quest for something now forever lost -- a nation's collective naivete, destro

Cathryn Hankla is professor of English at Hollins University.

Did the Souls Go

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Introduction

2

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Great Blue

3

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Irrelevant Violet

4

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Self-Reflection

5

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The Place

6

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She Falls

7

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Fate

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Man Marking

10

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The Unexpected

11

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Eggs

12

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Baby

13

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Thinking to Scale

14

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Hunger Moon

15

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Civil Rights

16

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Abracadabra

17

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Dreaming of Turtles

18

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Drinking Becherovka

19

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Red Beets, Steaming

20

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God Attack

21

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Monarchs

22

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Reading Simone Weil at a Tender Age

23

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Amelia

24

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Baby, It's Cold Outside

25

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Mid-Life Apologia

26

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Neighborhood Buffalo

27

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Kafka's WC

28

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Renovation

29

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Footsteps

30

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Mont Sainte-Victoire of the Local

31

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Plump

32

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Memory Game

33

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The Other Room

34

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Jackie Is Dead

35

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Starry Night

36

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Ants

37

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Sleeping Beauty

38

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Afternoon

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Description

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Rilke's Basement

41

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In the Valentines

42

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Prague Blues

43

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The Magic Telephone

44

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Bronzed Memory

45

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Dreaming of Prague

46

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Pages Ago

47

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Maps

48

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Turn Something Inside Out

49

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When the Telephone Was in the Fish Tank

50

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Plastic Wrap in a Cavern

51

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Dental Floss in the Getaway Car

52

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Freedom

53

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