""'On a day fresh as a haircut' writes Beth Roberts, 'I left the family for the field. / I looked hard for the body.' This is a book of setting out, of looking for the body--familial, sexual, spiritual, poetic--from which we were somehow, long ago, severed. These poems inhabit, unflinchingly, the "invented and inflicted holes" of a consciousness that is by turns grieving, ironic, self-lacerating, celebratory. Roberts' faith in the renovating powers of lyric tradition is as anxious as it is necessary. This book is gorgeous and true." (Mark Levine)"--
""'On a day fresh as a haircut' writes Beth Roberts, 'I left the family for the field. / I looked hard for the body.' This is a book of setting out, of looking for the body--familial, sexual, spiritual, poetic--from which we were somehow, long ago, severed. These poems inhabit, unflinchingly, the "invented and inflicted holes" of a consciousness that is by turns grieving, ironic, self-lacerating, celebratory. Roberts' faith in the renovating powers of lyric tradition is as anxious as it is necessary. This book is gorgeous and true." (Mark Levine)"--
Beth Roberts grew up a pastor's kid, mostly in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. For the 30+ years since graduating from the Iowa Writers' Workshop she's been living in the Illinois-Iowa Quad Cities, but will return to the U.P. in the spring. Her first book of poems, Brief Moral History in Blue, was published by New Issues in 2001. During the many years since it's been other struggles and joys, including work as the editorial director at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.
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When we break for the spires and tall grass together Contents Evolvers At the penultimate moment 6 In the holy polar vortex 7 Googling Earth 8 The land of reason 9 They who make the quiet quieter 10 Spotted deer 11 On impact 12 Back to the villa 13 The wager 14 One way 15 Nostalgia 16 White-throated sparrows, boy sopranos 17 Sober 18 Rough housing 19 As it melts 20 A pair of airs 21 2-step round and reel 22 Just as long as space is 23 The work of thy hands 24 For all things now living 25 The bright side 26 Cleave 27 Chimera Loud 29 This is not a poem 30 Like a person 31 "Describe yourself using three words." 32 I make a joke 33 "Do you have any questions?" 34 Liars poetica 35 In possible 36 In these parts you created worrisome places 37 With her 38 Movement 39 Like a burning understory 40 A song for some children 41 FAQs 42 Couplet 43 "In its acclimation to climate change, the chimera shines." 44 "What is your mother's maiden name?" 45 Just a moment 46 It's been real 47 Of spring 48 Of nature's people 49 Putti Winter light 51 Fight club at the museum 52 Skull thought 53 Another memento 54 Skull remembers 55 Look 56
When we break for the spires and tall grass together Contents Evolvers At the penultimate moment 6 In the holy polar vortex 7 Googling Earth 8 The land of reason 9 They who make the quiet quieter 10 Spotted deer 11 On impact 12 Back to the villa 13 The wager 14 One way 15 Nostalgia 16 White-throated sparrows, boy sopranos 17 Sober 18 Rough housing 19 As it melts 20 A pair of airs 21 2-step round and reel 22 Just as long as space is 23 The work of thy hands 24 For all things now living 25 The bright side 26 Cleave 27 Chimera Loud 29 This is not a poem 30 Like a person 31 "Describe yourself using three words." 32 I make a joke 33 "Do you have any questions?" 34 Liars poetica 35 In possible 36 In these parts you created worrisome places 37 With her 38 Movement 39 Like a burning understory 40 A song for some children 41 FAQs 42 Couplet 43 "In its acclimation to climate change, the chimera shines." 44 "What is your mother's maiden name?" 45 Just a moment 46 It's been real 47 Of spring 48 Of nature's people 49 Putti Winter light 51 Fight club at the museum 52 Skull thought 53 Another memento 54 Skull remembers 55 Look 56
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