Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In.
Title:
Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In.
Author:
Roberson, Ed.
ISBN:
9781587292057
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (168 pages)
Series:
Iowa Poetry Prize
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword / Andrew Welsh -- Lucid Interval as Integral Music -- The Form -- Picking Up the Tune, the Universe and Planets -- This Week's Concerts -- I. Because the final, -- II. Songs without words, -- III. The rice care, -- IV. The park geese, -- V. A sudden smoothness like a glass, -- VI.There are no stars in, -- VII. With the dead rest, -- VIII. The cobra standing, -- IX. We can run out of our side, -- X. Blood: someone says it's not, -- XI. The fast storm sky wiped so suddenly, -- XII. The walls become whole, -- XIII. The builders baled chambers, -- XIV. I pull a curtain of the great cats, -- XV. The Local/Elevations, -- XVI. No, 26 -- XVII. A carnival of bald deer, -- XVIII. The rule of the spirits guesses, -- XIX. The fireworks mariner, -- XX. You have to run forward, -- XXI. Their body holding, -- XXII. I walk nights, -- XVIII. Sometime I'm going to have to, -- XVIV. As a boy there were no black boy, -- XXV. And now here I was in the amazon, -- XXVI. it is a flash flood, -- XXVII. Huge Spaces Apart We Still Look Each Other Face to Face (Santa Barbara), -- XXVIII. When I saw it I thought I was hundreds, -- XXIX. The variations on God, -- At Any of the Bethabaras: Metempsychosis, -- XXX. Red Shift, -- XXXI. Influence it, -- XXXII. We had seen a first, -- XXIII. Information, -- XXXIV. One of the things we were, -- XXXV. Something stretched out on balance, -- Seizure by Simple Error -- XXXVI. It is without example, -- XXXVII. The notebooks are where the foot, -- XXXVIII. In this song the people are singing, -- XXXIX. A T-square regular, -- XL. I Have Opened Six of Ti's Nine Knots, -- XLI. The puzzle in bundles, -- XLII. There is a cleft brain talking diamond, -- XLIII. Simbi Petro Darnballah La Flambeau, -- XLIV. The Seven Deltas of Shango's Wives, -- XLV. Where day sun's long pile, -- Interval and Final Day's Concerts -- Interval.
X. That everything can go, -- I. 12.b.obs.OED, -- II. Isolating the Nurturent Reflex to Sound, -- III. Knowing the music, -- IV. Labyrinth is a real route, -- V. Photograph: The House of the Poet, -- VI. . . . Apart from What Each Other Is . . . -- VII. The fairy tales were over and had grown -- VIII. They say when, -- IX. Ours is a foolish fire, -- Whose sleeves -- The Aerialist Narratives -- Chapter One -- I. Aerialist Narrative, -- II. Taking the Print, -- III. Heading: The Landing, -- IV. Waterfowl Landing: It Lifts to Close, -- V. Properties, -- VI. Cape Journal: At Sand Pile, -- VII. African Ascendancy, -- VIII. Research at the Interstice, -- IX. The Motorcycle Crossing, -- X. The Comb, -- XI. Given Way, -- Chapter Two -- I. Mblemati.txt, -- II. Stepping through I, -- III. Heron Riddle Flashback, -- IV. The skipping stone stays out of the water, -- V. Cinquain de Lune, -- VI. What the Return of the Lines Meant, -- VII. Chorus at Ohiopyle, -- VIII. Gnosis, -- IX. The birds put inside, -- X. Elegy for a White Cock, Chorus at Ohiopyle, -- XI. Onze -- Chapter Three -- I. A widow suckling, -- II. Bomb, -- III. On the Line, -- IV. There were these -- V. And O, -- IV. There were these, -- VI. Handed the Rain, -- VII. The flock of black cormorants flying, -- VIII. Ask for "How High the Moon," -- IX. After the De-Tonations on the Moon by NASA, -- X. Ha, -- xi. In Light of Dream,.
Abstract:
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 García Márquez 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. Reading the two basic cycles of this elliptical and intriguing work could be likened to reading Ezra Pound or a more deliberate and lyrically touched Charles Olson, but with an unanchored allusiveness of things largely American taking the place of the Chinese and the Mayan. Roberson creates that rare combination of sophistication and simplicity which defines truly significant poetry. In this new work he makes the variety of our culture dance from his very special viewpoint.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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