
Prop Rockery
Emily Rosko(Author)
University of Akron Press
Published on 10. February 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
92 pages
978-1-937378-16-5 (ISBN)
Description
Art is about something the way a cat is about the house, says Allen Grossman. This is abundantly true of Emily Rosko's poems in Prop Rockery, a condition she defines with a quote from King Lear: a looped and windowed raggedness. And while this condition is pretend, and these poems are indeed virtuoso performances, the despair, loneliness, lies, and miscommunication they examine are as real as anything in art. Parataxis and fragments meet rhyme and chewy-on-the-tongue Anglo Saxon diction at the axis of postmodern irony. Prop Rockery explodes in your mouth-no sugar, plenty of bite."Natasha SajÃ(c), author of Bend and Red Under the Skin
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
159 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-937378-16-5 (9781937378165)
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Prop Rockery
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Emily Rosko is the author of Raw Goods Inventory, winner of the 2005 Iowa Poetry Prize and the 2007 Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers from Shenandoah. A former Wallace Stegner Writing Fellow at Stanford University, she also is the past recipient of Poetry magazine's Ruth Lilly Fellowship and a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship.