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Brocken Spectre
Brocken Spectre | Jacques J. Rancourt
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"Set in San Francisco, Brocken Spectre examines the way the past presses up against the present. The speaker, raised in the wake of the AIDS crisis, engages with ideas of belatedness, of looking back to a past that cannot be inhabited, of the ethics of memory, and of the dangers in memorializing and romanticizing tragedy. Caught between generations with no queer ancestral guidance, poems consider the ethical implication of memory, of public and private tragedies"--
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Brocken Spectre | Jacques J. Rancourt
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These poems feel so haunted to me, by the specter of the AIDS crisis, by God, by something like survivor‘s guilt. The speaker seems to struggle with what it means to be after, what it means to go on. Towards the end, in the last few poems, there is a turn toward the future and a feeling, to me, of the speaker reconciling himself with movement into that unknown. It feels like less a destination and more a bridge.

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