![]() ![]() I admire the great tenderness these poems convey toward those who preceded them and how, in Rancourt’s hands, hauntings become inheritances worth having, even in a world on fire. Rancourt’s lyrics alert us both to time’s layers and to the wonder of its elasticity. Navigating the powerful undertow of amnesia and a future that has already passed by, Jacques J. “Delving into the nature of memory, both cultural and emotional, the poems of Broken Spectre are sharp, dauntless, and unflinchingly lucid. These moving and memorable poems speak from edges of longing and loss while they create important new narratives of meaningful connection.” A Brocken spectre, a phenomenon where an observers shadow is cast upon the surfaces of clouds opposite the Sun, has been claimed to be the cause of these so-called sightings, although that doesnt explain the sound of an extra pair of footsteps. “What does it mean to have survived a plague? Are we obliged to remember a disaster, or are we best called to make our own joy independent of the past? The poems in Brocken Spectre document a queer new age-one in which the AIDS crisis has abated, though the lost quietly ghost the periphery of this writer’s imagination. Through embodied desires both difficult and triumphant, these poems recast their dreams with a deft touch of wit, poise, and an openness for transformation equal to their ambition to preserve the past and its ghosts. The Brocken Spectre appears when a low sun is behind a climber who is looking downwards into mist from a ridge or peak. White, Rancourt crystalizes the modern sublime through intelligent, complicated, and elegiac modes of inquiry through the plights and heights of the human body. It takes its name from the Brocken, a peak in the Harz Mountains in Germany. The Brocken spectre (or Brocken bow) is an apparently greatly magnified shadow of an observer cast against mist or cloud below the level of a summit or. Websters Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. “Harnessing new visions from the traditions of Mark Doty and James L. The Brocken Spectre is also called a Brocken bow or mountain spectre. that observed on the Brocken, in the Harz Mountains. Erica Charis-Molling, the Los Angeles Review To be visible the sun must be behind you, and at low angles. ![]() The poems in this collection shift position and bend the light, wrestling with what to believe of the rainbow promises of 'never again.'" The Brocken spectre is actually a scientific phenomenon and can be witnessed under the right atmospheric conditions in many places around the world. “In the world of Rancourt’s poems, places hold memory and the past persists, whether acknowledged or not. ![]()
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