University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975 Paper: 978-0-8229-5214-5 | eISBN: 978-0-8229-8081-0 Library of Congress Classification PS3568.O235W5 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
C.D. Wright has described Roberson’s work as “lyric poetry of meticulous design and lasting emotional significance," comparing its musical qualities to the work of saxophonist Steve Lacy, jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Ed Roberson is a former professor of literature and creative writing at Rutgers University. He has taught at the University of Chicago and Columbia College Chicago. Roberson is the recipient of the Stephen Henderson Critics Award for Achievement in Literature, and has also won an LA Times Book Award, the 2008 Shelley Memorial Award from The Poetry Society of America, the 1998 National Poetry Series Award, and the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award.
REVIEWS
"Mature and thoughtful work, with moments of the superb."
—Publishers Weekly
“Ed Roberson overwhelms one with genius.”
—Prairie Schooner
“The quiet fierceness of Ed Roberson’s poetry terrifies as it comes out from a controlled if unconventional verse form.”
—Saturday Review
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
few
there is against explicit
Thirteen Poems From The Two Andes
it
sonnet
18,000 feet
kenai lake alaska
true we are two grown men
dreaming has made more strict the terms of dreaming
blue horses
romance
strait of phoenix
young men's
eclipse
the sole irrhythm
news
news continued release
poll
the poor houses
seventh son
note on the dresser
change song
suite
…sleeping with…
snake with its tail in its mouth
the only night in town
if the black frog will not ring
mayday
queue (or the night traffic signals
drill
layout job
the passing lane
seen from the back of my head
othello jones dresses for dinner
report
When Thy King Is A Boy
I
jacket
II
ancestor song
III
poem from benin relief
IV
song about the order of this and the next song
V
war song
VI
Four Lines Of A Black Love Letter Between Teachers
VII
Song
VIII
seven songs of loss before the next song
IX
the next song
X
the next song
XI
On the Calligraphy Of Black Chant
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University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975 Paper: 978-0-8229-5214-5 eISBN: 978-0-8229-8081-0
C.D. Wright has described Roberson’s work as “lyric poetry of meticulous design and lasting emotional significance," comparing its musical qualities to the work of saxophonist Steve Lacy, jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Ed Roberson is a former professor of literature and creative writing at Rutgers University. He has taught at the University of Chicago and Columbia College Chicago. Roberson is the recipient of the Stephen Henderson Critics Award for Achievement in Literature, and has also won an LA Times Book Award, the 2008 Shelley Memorial Award from The Poetry Society of America, the 1998 National Poetry Series Award, and the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award.
REVIEWS
"Mature and thoughtful work, with moments of the superb."
—Publishers Weekly
“Ed Roberson overwhelms one with genius.”
—Prairie Schooner
“The quiet fierceness of Ed Roberson’s poetry terrifies as it comes out from a controlled if unconventional verse form.”
—Saturday Review
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
few
there is against explicit
Thirteen Poems From The Two Andes
it
sonnet
18,000 feet
kenai lake alaska
true we are two grown men
dreaming has made more strict the terms of dreaming
blue horses
romance
strait of phoenix
young men's
eclipse
the sole irrhythm
news
news continued release
poll
the poor houses
seventh son
note on the dresser
change song
suite
…sleeping with…
snake with its tail in its mouth
the only night in town
if the black frog will not ring
mayday
queue (or the night traffic signals
drill
layout job
the passing lane
seen from the back of my head
othello jones dresses for dinner
report
When Thy King Is A Boy
I
jacket
II
ancestor song
III
poem from benin relief
IV
song about the order of this and the next song
V
war song
VI
Four Lines Of A Black Love Letter Between Teachers
VII
Song
VIII
seven songs of loss before the next song
IX
the next song
X
the next song
XI
On the Calligraphy Of Black Chant
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