Join award-winning poet Caitlin Roach with local poet and memoirist Jane Wong to celebrate Roach's debut collection of poems, Surveille! Surveille's queer speaker is on the cusp of motherhood, vacillating between attentiveness and paranoia. Exploring drone strikes, scorpion eradication, bird behavior, mating deer, ICE detainees, and family relationships, Caitlin Roach's poems stare into and through the truth with a blazing intensity. This is a book about control (self-inflicted and external), about watching and being watched (by oneself, by others, by the state), and about the desperate search for meaning in a world that feels increasingly violent and filled with despair.
Surveille is this year's winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson.
