Incorrect Merciful Impulses by Camille Rankine

She is the author of Slow Dance with Trip. Camille Rankines first full-length collection of poetry, Incorrect Merciful Impulses, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press.

Currently, she is assistant director of the MFA program in creative writing at Manhattanville College and lives in Harlem. In Incorrect Merciful Impulses, Camille Rankine reaches for her reader with her generous range of poetic forms and her capacity to activate and modulate a series of internal-scapes both varied and honest. Camille Rankine is the author of Incorrect Merciful Impulses, published in January 2016 by Copper Canyon Press. The recipient of a 2010 'Discovery' / Boston Review Poetry Prize and a MacDowell fellowship, her poetry appears in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Tin House, and other publications. The collection's sense of continuity and coherence comes through recurring poem types, including 'still lifes,' 'instructions,' and 'symptoms.'Ĭamille Rankine is the author of the chapbook Slow Dance with Trip Wire, selected by Cornelius Eady for the Poetry Society of America's Chapbook Fellowship. Rankine's short, lyric poems are sharp, agonized, and exquisite, exploring themes of doubt and identity. A technically inventive, complex collection with forceful meditations of the Black body. Named 'a poet to watch' by O Magazine, Camille Rankine's debut collection is a series of provocations and explorations. TheSeale圜hallenge 14/31: Camille Rankine, Incorrect Merciful Impulses. 'I tell the truth, but I try to be kind about it.'-Camille Rankine in 12 Questions

Incorrect Merciful Impulses by Camille Rankine