Something has to happen next / Andrew Michael Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robin, Andrew, 1971-

Series:

Iowa poetry prize.

Winner of the Iowa Poetry prize

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (70 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The poems in something has to happen next, if given the chance, might peer down inquisitively from a great height; they speak of quietness, namelessness, the reachlessness of love, the fortune of animals and their silence, apocalypse, abandonment, beginnings, and endings.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. 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 meThey 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 elseListen; It'll pack a pretty shirt; iowa poetry prize and edwin ford piper poetry award winners

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781587298431

1587298430

OCLC:

646846726