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Series

• Iowa poetry prize. [More in this series]
• Winner of the Iowa Poetry prize

Summary note

"Working with brevity and compression, Andrew Michael Roberts first imagines how small he can go with a poem and still maintain some sort of emotional or imagistic center. Then, released from this limitation, the rest of his playful, unexpected poems expand to fill a world with imagery, emotion, and sound." "What Roberts calls "simply a book of small poems" grew out of his obsessions with time and catastrophe and love and abandonment - what is always possible, almost attained, but lost at the last minute. When something ends or when everything ends, something else must always happen next - what will it be, and who will be there to name and love and destroy it?"--BOOK JACKET.

Contents

• 1. dearwild abandon
• dear wild abandon
• we are not birds
• explain yourself
• among the beautiful illusions
• poem written on the mirror of her skin
• dear man on fire
• tragic figure in a rearview
• the moon
• what i know of the moon
• strip mall
• birds of paradise
• before sleep takes us
• swallows built their nest around it
• when we were giant
• again i strike your window in full flight
• dear artificial heart
• pledge of allegiance
• the face of jesus in my bite bruise
• laundromat at the end of the world
• dear special theory of relativity
• you can hear it through the cumulative heartbeats
• you never touched me
• they molt in hopes of airier plumage
• dear quark
• prove you wrong
• the end
• dear catastrophe
• 2. something has to happen next
• rehearsal
• this or something like it
• a cyclist passes with a cello on his back
• lamb
• the story of my beard
• other people's machines
• winter museum
• what we know
• the moments before the crash landing are clearest
• serendipity
• safe shower
• stalactite
• somewhere a buried bone awaits
• for the dispossessed
• in the night of the womb the spirit quickens into flesh
• coyotes
• chosen
• world
• levitator's apprentice
• man of the year
• california
• if nothing else
• listen
• i'll pack a pretty shirt.

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ISBN

• 9781587297946
• 1587297949

OCLC

268787805

Other standard number

• 40016541033

RCP

C - S

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