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Something has to happen next

By Roberts , Andrew Michael

Book information

Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Year
2009
ISBN
1-58729-794-9, 978-1-58729-794-6, 9781587298431, 1587298430, 35530-09-10-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
929 kB (951591 bytes)
Series
Iowa poetry prize
Edition
1
Pages
56\70
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
American poetry. American literature. POETRY -- Am

Description

The poems in something has to happen next, if given the chance, might peer down inquisitively from a great height; they speak of quietness, namelessness, the reachlessness of love, the fortune of animals and their silence, apocalypse, abandonment, beginnings, and endings.Working with brevity and compression, Andrew Michael Roberts first imagines how small he can go with a poem and still maintain some sort of emotional or imagistic center. Then, released from this limitation, the rest of his playful, unexpected poems expand to fill a world with imagery, emotion, and sound.What Roberts calls “simply a book of small poems” grew out of his obsessions with time and catastrophe and love and abandonment—what is always possible, almost attained, but lost at the last minute. When something ends or when everything ends, something else must always happen next—what will it be, and who will be there to name and love and destroy it?

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