Research Catalog

Title

Something has to happen next / Andrew Michael Roberts.

Author

Robin, Andrew, 1971-

Publication

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2009], ©2009.

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Details

Description

56 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"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.

Series Statement

Winner of the Iowa Poetry prize

Uniform Title

Iowa poetry prize.

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.

ISBN

• 9781587297946
• 1587297949

LCCN

40016541033

OCLC

• 268787805
• ocn268787805
• SCSB-5464327

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries