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Voices cast out to talk us in : poems / by Ed Roberson ; foreword by Andrew Welsh.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Iowa poetry prizePublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, �1995.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 149 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 158729205X
  • 9781587292057
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Voices cast out to talk us in.DDC classification:
  • 811/.54 20
LOC classification:
  • PS3568.O235 V65 1995eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword / Andrew Welsh -- because the final -- songs without words -- the rice care -- The park geese -- A sudden smoothness like a glass -- there are no stars in -- With the dead rest -- the cobra standing -- we can run out of our side -- blood: someone says it's not -- The fast storm sky wiped so suddenly -- the walls become whole -- the builders baled chambers -- I pull a curtain of the great cats -- The Local/Elevations -- No -- a carnival of bald deer -- the rule of the spirits guesses -- the fireworks mariner -- you have to run forward -- Their body holding -- I walk nights -- sometime I'm going to have to -- As a boy there were no black boy -- and now here I was in the amazon -- it is a flash flood -- Huge Spaces Apart We Still Look Each Other Face to Face (Santa Barbara) -- when I saw it I thought I was hundreds -- the variations on god -- At Any of the Bethabaras: Metempsychosis -- Red Shift -- influence it -- We had seen a first -- Information.
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Awards:
  • "Winner of the Iowa poetry prize"
Summary: There is no one else like Ed Roberson - certainly there is no other poet like him. His is an oblique, eccentric, totally fascinating talent. Because of these qualities, it may seem that he is difficult to follow - as Ornette Coleman or Gabriel Garc�ia M�arquez or Romare Beardon seems difficult to track at times. But his strength of vision is always evident; the quickness and inclusiveness of his voice can sweep a reader along into new and refreshing areas. Roberson's poetic moves are not tricks or affected traits. They are artistic and deeply considered techniques. Re.
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There is no one else like Ed Roberson - certainly there is no other poet like him. His is an oblique, eccentric, totally fascinating talent. Because of these qualities, it may seem that he is difficult to follow - as Ornette Coleman or Gabriel Garc�ia M�arquez or Romare Beardon seems difficult to track at times. But his strength of vision is always evident; the quickness and inclusiveness of his voice can sweep a reader along into new and refreshing areas. Roberson's poetic moves are not tricks or affected traits. They are artistic and deeply considered techniques. Re.

Foreword / Andrew Welsh -- because the final -- songs without words -- the rice care -- The park geese -- A sudden smoothness like a glass -- there are no stars in -- With the dead rest -- the cobra standing -- we can run out of our side -- blood: someone says it's not -- The fast storm sky wiped so suddenly -- the walls become whole -- the builders baled chambers -- I pull a curtain of the great cats -- The Local/Elevations -- No -- a carnival of bald deer -- the rule of the spirits guesses -- the fireworks mariner -- you have to run forward -- Their body holding -- I walk nights -- sometime I'm going to have to -- As a boy there were no black boy -- and now here I was in the amazon -- it is a flash flood -- Huge Spaces Apart We Still Look Each Other Face to Face (Santa Barbara) -- when I saw it I thought I was hundreds -- the variations on god -- At Any of the Bethabaras: Metempsychosis -- Red Shift -- influence it -- We had seen a first -- Information.

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