Loner Forensics: Poems [Paperback]

The third collection of poetry from Thea Brown, author ofThink of the Danger

InLoner Forensics, Thea Brown dreams up and dissects a city beset by unexplained disappearances, roving silences, and climate collapse. This sprawling collection comprises a series of interviews with denizens of the shifting city, each mediated through the lonely lens of the Detective, a character whose refractive investigation atomizes the scene. As much a study of complicity as a critique of capitalism’s distortive effects on human emotional response,Loner Forensicsquestions what happens when our innermost terrains become newly unfamiliar in an unraveling natural world.

Dark, fractured, and canny, Brown’s shimmering third collection draws on parallel universes, 1980s video games, social media pop-speak, and ghost towns to immerse the reader in grief, utopia, disaster—and, ultimately, love.In her third poetry collection,Loner Forensics, Thea Brown dreams up and dissects a city beset by unexplained disappearances, roving silences, and climate collapse.THEA BROWNis the author of the chapbookWe Are Fantasticand two previous poetry collections,Think of the DangerandFamous Times. Originally from the Hudson Valley in New York, she was a Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and now lives in Baltimore.HEAD SOUTH, CATAFALQUE      6
THE ANNOTATOR  14
THE FORENSICS TEAM     15
THE MAYOR 16
THE PALM READER           18
THE AMATEURS     19
THE CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGIST, PART 1  20
THE CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGIST, PART 2  21
THE CURATOR        22
THE WEATHER        24
THE REGISTER        25
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