Closest Pronunciation
Poems
Published on 30. January 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
36 pages
978-0-8101-2892-7 (ISBN)
Description
Northwestern University Press is honoured to inaugurate the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize series with Ed Roberson's Closest Pronunciation. Here is a teacher of poets studying his own assignments, questioning and seeking the generative capacity in looking at and seeing things that ends in the realisation of a poem. In a line from the brief poem ""Night Writing,"" from which the chapbook draws its title, he writes, ""The word closest in pronunciation / To an ambulance's siren is 'wrong.' "" The collection as a whole gives voice, often quiet but always profound, to many things overlooked and neglected in culture, nature, and everyday life.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Dimensions
Height: 167 mm
Width: 124 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
60 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-2892-7 (9780810128927)
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Ed Roberson is the author of eight books of poetry, including Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In, a winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and a recent collection, The New Wing of the Labyrinth (Singing Horse Press, 2010). His Atmosphere Conditions was selected for the National Poetry Series and nominated for the Lenore Marshall Award from the Academy of American Poets. His latest book, To See the Earth Before the End of the World, is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press in fall 2010. A recipient of the Lila Wallace Writers' Award and the 2008 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, he is Distinguished Artist in Residence at Northwestern University.