![]() They, dare I say it, ‘contain multitudes.'”-The Bind “Like Whitman in Song of Myself, Rollins is striving in Library of Small Catastrophes to encompass a broad swath of what it is to be here and human… Rollins’s poems are weighty, strange, full to bursting, inspired, musical, and various. Rollins cements her place as a critical voice in contemporary poetry.” -Muzzle Magazine “In Library of Small Catastrophes, Alison C. “Rollins explores the ways in which we store our personal and cultural histories and how they act upon us, in language so immediate and evocative it’s sure to bring about some tears while reading.” -Buzzfeed “Sparkles with compassionate intelligence…” -Adroit Journal Rollins makes use of imagery relating to archives, texts, figures from history, card catalogs, classifications-libraries as evocative troves of imagery, blurring eras, familiar phrases and identities.” -Naomi Shihab Nye, New York Times Magazine “In a stunning debut collection of poems, Alison C. “In poem after poem, Rollins demonstrates that she is finding her own way, shining a light, making darkness apparent.” - Publishers Weekly “A collection of poetry which is magnificently crafted, readable, and crucially important.” - New York Journal of Books Pandora means: the girl with all the gifts. Her mother taught her you should never lookĪ gift horse in the mouth, so instead she feels Mouths of things that need to be shelved. Placing the black spines back in order, cupping Keep your day job, the professor had told her. To love is to fear by choice, and fear is a particular religion. To do than watch the eyes move of people who don’t love her. She never mistakes what it looks like for what it is. Up on sarcasm instinctively, that AI has yet to grasp Today the librarian learned that only humans can pick Of watermelon merely serve to suggest sincerity. She is from the Show Me State and people from Sees men as horned beasts in their verbalizing.ĭon’t just talk about it, be about it, she contends. If a computer can write a poem, if a machine hasĬonsciousness. On Sundays sitting in coffee shops she wonders Nailhead, until the clippings litter the omniscientįloor, already a wasteland-all the floorboards She dissects the sounds, peels each syllable noteīy note, deconstructs the prosody nailhead by She don’t think nobody ever made her.Īutopsy comes from the Greek autopsia meaning:Ī seeing for oneself. The librarian is not the Spanish princess in Pan’s Of vocabulary before the night lets down its hair. She plays word-search puzzles in neighborhoods On her nightstand rests A Street in Bronzeville. She garbles words so the monsters don’t get her,Ĭan’t locate the whereabouts of her body in the dark. They speak pidgin and bleed alphabet soup. She thinks in theory, we will make it outĪlive, the monsters under her bed are outdated, She thinks linguists build houses they can’t afford ![]() ![]() Sandwich in hand she types a note in her phone:Įxperts expect 90% of the world’s approximatelyħ,000 languages will become extinct in the next 100 years. That is, the distance from any white or black key on the piano to the key immediately to its right or left, is a half step.She reads the Atlas of World Languages in Danger The distance between each of the twelve different notes is called a half step, or, a semitone. These are the most common octaves and their numbers: Octave All notes from C up to the next octave have the same number (e.g., C1, D1, E1, F1, G1, A1 og B1). The octave of the lowest C on the piano has number 1, while the octave of the highest C has number 8. In this system, a number is added after the name of the note corresponding to the octave number in which the note falls.Įach octave, starting from the note C, has a number. Usually, a note is referred to with the same name, regardless of whether it is low or high. However, there is a system for naming low and high notes that can be used if you need to distinguish between them.
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