Surrounded by Friends - Brossura

Rohrer, Matthew

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1940696038 ISBN 13: 9781940696034

Casa editrice: Wave Books, 2015

Riassunto

"Rohrer's frequently beautiful, brief poems are rooted in specific images that initially seem unrelatedbut which ultimately form a unity as meditations on how the ordinary distractions of everyday life can be seen as the source for almost everything important in life."Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly

The poems in Matthew Rohrer's seventh poetry collection are generated by, and embrace, friendships with the living, the dead, and the inanimate. Friends, family, and the urban peoplescape are gathered together in these poems, with more and more poetic voices joining in, and ending with poems written "in collaboration" with Kobayashi Issa, Yosa Buson, Matsuo Basho, and Hafiz.

THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LONELIER

There is absolutely nothing lonelier
than the little Mars rover
never shutting down, digging up
rocks, so far away from Bond Street
in a light rain. I wonder
if he makes little beeps? If so
he is lonelier still. He fires a laser
into the dust. He coughs. A shiny
thing in the sand turns out to be his.

Matthew Rohrer has received the Hopwood Award for poetry, a Pushcart Prize, was selected as a National Poetry Series winner by Mary Oliver, and was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. He is the co-author, with Joshua Beckman, ofNice Hat. Thanks., and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He has appeared on NPR'sAll Things Considered and The Next Big Thing. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at NYU.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Matthew Rohrer is the author of Destroyer and Preserver (Wave Books, 2011),A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), Rise Up (Wave Books, 2007) andA Green Light (Verse Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the author ofSatellite (Verse Press, 2001), and co-author, with Joshua Beckman, of Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press, 2002), and the audio CDAdventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He has appeared on NPRs All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing. His first book,A Hummock in the Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at NYU.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Wave Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1940696038
• ISBN 13: 9781940696034
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 96
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile