To Account For dg nanouk okpik first published in 1989 as

first published in 1989 as Tender Buttons Number 1

“exile has no form but leaves a trace

Elaine Kahn unspools the fundamental instability of truth

Transverse weaves between languages and forms

'Totally engrossing' Ocean Vuong

To Account For dg nanouk okpik first published in 1989 asIan Patterson Published by Face Press in an edition of just 250 copies. Ten poems, risograph printed. Title page in black and aqua blue inks and colophon in metallic gold. Covers individually splash painted in sumi ink and bright blue calligraphy ink, with additional gold ink to the outside. Stitched with brass wire. Collated, bound, and trimmed by hand. Patterson is a Life Fellow of Queens' College Cambridge. The Plenty of Nothing, his elegy for