Pacific Walkers

"Van Winckel's intersections of then and now, other and us, are the stuff of real poetry."—Mike Dillon, City Living

"These moving poems span a multifaceted range of narrators."—Publishers Weekly, January 2013

"An exquisite collection. Those who love stories; those who are interested in ways of thinking about memory, the passing of time, family history, old photographs; and those who enjoy just hovering for a moment in the beauty of arresting details and language will be eager readers of Pacific Walkers."—Nancy Eimers, author of A Grammar to Waking and Oz

"Nance Van Winckel's new collection is alive with the natural world, full of kinetic storytelling and a willingness to observe even the smallest part of our lives which, of course, often impact us the most. This is also a book of poems that celebrate the ten thousand things of our culture, from the Bronze Age to Value Village. Van Winckel knows that part of the poet's job is to witness back to us our own experience and she does this with a voice I am happy to know is singing in the sometimes dark and rainy days of our planet."—Matthew Dickman, author of Mayakovsky's Revolver and All-American Poem