Friendly Fire
Poems
Will be published approx. on 13. October 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
60 pages
978-0-9800289-1-1 (ISBN)
Description
Katrina Roberts' poems do not admit easy phrasings; instead, they are assembled word by word, each chosen with informed deliberation and a sense of pace. I have followed the track of her lines with heightened attention, eager for her next surprise.
Reviews / Votes
Friendly Fire, Katrina Roberts' cycle of fifty-two sonnets, proves the durability and flexibility of the lyric today. A taut narrative scaffolding supports Roberts' brief, searing meditations on family, farm labor, friendship, illness, parenting. Colloquial language lends verve. Literal images evoke the texture of farm life. Roberts explores abstraction ( Forgiveness ) with apt metaphor: "I shelter the grudge, build / a rustic cabin for it in my chest, pound rusty nails / in to anchor a porch where I sit glaring." At the close of "Malignant," the narrator asks a timeless question: what lies in wait for us? Read Friendly Fire for Roberts' sensual and wise rendering of the here and now." - Robin Becker, author of Domain of Perfect AffectionMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Sandpoint
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
159 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9800289-1-1 (9780980028911)
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Person
Katrina Roberts is the author of Underdog, The Quick, and How Late Desire Looks. She is the Mina Schwabacher Professor in English and the Humanities and the Paul Garrett Fellow in the Humanities at Whitman College.