University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975 Paper: 978-0-8229-5263-3 | eISBN: 978-0-8229-8082-7 Library of Congress Classification PS3568.O235E8 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Etai-Eken is a legend told in a series, a cycle of poems, which is to say, told in different languages. The action of the poems in the poem is their moving in and out of the legend by the changes of access to the larger legend; an access of the present in the ancient, of the present’s knowledge and experience of it.
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
Praise for Ed Roberson
“[A] master of a hauntingly meditative rhythm of thought and perception.”
—Reginald Gibbons
Praise for Ed Roberson
“One of the most quietly dazzling poets writing in English today.”
—Callaloo
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Dani Words Song
Song of the Son
found: Under The Mountain Wall
and the last polished stone
day blue bowl
the still water as brown
When Everyone Is Beauty Is A Time Of Day In Zulu
at having seen there was great stillness
like sight placed
everything in place was a first thing
the note of seeing the mark of sight
to the classics: jazz
papa old bones
Formula for the poem dance
The poem for the movement
when you are your nervous system
line to rest on
open the road
they come
4 Poems Trees at the Cardinal Points
Nature Poem
a shell that scallop fan
A hammer is always brought to the building
the buildings are the triumphant figure
there is a way you can draw
putting something on the line
once about to take off
it must be that in the midst
the thousand legged
the music someone has put on
the zebra is two
any moment
how many ever
how many ever
as we come to a day
coming to hear
they are crazy
place where crying begins
beasts dogs the bitter water
they sat singing in sold death
many made no sound
you see it clearly
the killed appear to the killer
green is greener in the heated air
the river was turned red
The Nature Poem
it used to kill us
song of the assistant professors
it's put these days that
american culture is the pot
“did you ever dream lucky, wake up cold in hand?”
#7 Lucky Hand
an economy
the body must be made of minutes
victory dance song
you see it clearly
the singer at the decision
soul hunters' song
you looked for signs shall i name them
the air the air
emptiness of it spirit for
she reveals herself wch is to reveal himself
fate's is the slave's
the waves
some of the faces in these streets
tell me that when the water rise
once
a black man's black is his mysteries
image of man
he is called penis sticking out
Etai Etai Eken
The Mojo Against Genocide Was Taken Care Of In The Beginning
the music someone has put on
now that heart has got us killed and eaten
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University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975 Paper: 978-0-8229-5263-3 eISBN: 978-0-8229-8082-7
Etai-Eken is a legend told in a series, a cycle of poems, which is to say, told in different languages. The action of the poems in the poem is their moving in and out of the legend by the changes of access to the larger legend; an access of the present in the ancient, of the present’s knowledge and experience of it.
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
Praise for Ed Roberson
“[A] master of a hauntingly meditative rhythm of thought and perception.”
—Reginald Gibbons
Praise for Ed Roberson
“One of the most quietly dazzling poets writing in English today.”
—Callaloo
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Dani Words Song
Song of the Son
found: Under The Mountain Wall
and the last polished stone
day blue bowl
the still water as brown
When Everyone Is Beauty Is A Time Of Day In Zulu
at having seen there was great stillness
like sight placed
everything in place was a first thing
the note of seeing the mark of sight
to the classics: jazz
papa old bones
Formula for the poem dance
The poem for the movement
when you are your nervous system
line to rest on
open the road
they come
4 Poems Trees at the Cardinal Points
Nature Poem
a shell that scallop fan
A hammer is always brought to the building
the buildings are the triumphant figure
there is a way you can draw
putting something on the line
once about to take off
it must be that in the midst
the thousand legged
the music someone has put on
the zebra is two
any moment
how many ever
how many ever
as we come to a day
coming to hear
they are crazy
place where crying begins
beasts dogs the bitter water
they sat singing in sold death
many made no sound
you see it clearly
the killed appear to the killer
green is greener in the heated air
the river was turned red
The Nature Poem
it used to kill us
song of the assistant professors
it's put these days that
american culture is the pot
“did you ever dream lucky, wake up cold in hand?”
#7 Lucky Hand
an economy
the body must be made of minutes
victory dance song
you see it clearly
the singer at the decision
soul hunters' song
you looked for signs shall i name them
the air the air
emptiness of it spirit for
she reveals herself wch is to reveal himself
fate's is the slave's
the waves
some of the faces in these streets
tell me that when the water rise
once
a black man's black is his mysteries
image of man
he is called penis sticking out
Etai Etai Eken
The Mojo Against Genocide Was Taken Care Of In The Beginning
the music someone has put on
now that heart has got us killed and eaten
REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
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