Closest Pronunciation

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8101-2892-7
Verlag: Northwestern University Press

Buch, Englisch, 36 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 45 g

Northwestern University Press is honoured to inaugurate the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize series with Ed Roberson’s <em>Closest Pronunciation</em>. 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roberson, Ed

Über Autor(innen)

Ed Roberson is the author of eight books of poetry, including <em>Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In</em>, a winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and a recent collection, <em>The New Wing of the Labyrinth </em>(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, <em>To See the Earth Before the End of the World</em>, 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.