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City eclogue / Ed Roberson.
Van Pelt Library PS3568.O235 C58 2006
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roberson, Ed.
- Series:
- Atelos (Series) ; 23.
- Atelos ; 23
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns.
- Cities and towns--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 136 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. : Atelos : Distributed by Small Press Distribution, ©2006.
- Summary:
- "Ed Roberson was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In addition to writing poetry, he has pursued a variety of remarkable interests. He has worked as a limnologist (conducting research on inland and coastal fresh water systems in Alaska's Aleutian Islands and in Bermuda), and for a period he was employed as a diver for the Pittsburgh Aquazoo (training porpoises, among other things). He worked for a period in an advertising graphics agency and in the Pittsburgh steel mills. Twice Ed Roberson was a team member on the Explorers' Club of Pittsburgh's South American Expeditions, in which context he climbed mountains in the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Andes and explored the upper Amazonian jungle in eastern Ecuador. He has motorcycled across the USA, and traveled in Mexico, the Caribbean, and in Nigeria, West Africa. In recent years, he has been employed primarily as a teacher and as an academic administrator, most recently at Rutgers University and at Columbia College in Chicago."--Publisher's website.
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. City Eclogue
- Stand-In Invocation
- City Eclogue: Words for It
- Sequoia Sempervirens
- The Distant Stars As Paparazzi
- As it crested the hill...
- Sit In What City We're In
- Place Lite By A Window
- Beauty's Standing
- Pt. 2. Beauty's Standing
- The building stood...
- The flesh form of the city doesn't move...
- Oceans through the crosswalk dipping a step...
- That powerful level of segregationists...
- (is 'im thux-ed fa we)...
- The quiet of the house evacuates into the street...
- We blink our eyes at any sudden noise...
- I'm awakened thinking of men running...
- On the other side of the idea...
- He woke in a fight for his life...
- Height and Deep Song
- Pt. 3. The Open
- The Open
- In a flattened sea of housing brick rubble
- in the waving Sargasso
- a scrap of the skin bill...
- Engine
- Standing Strong
- Pt. 4. Ornithologies
- Urban Nature
- 42nd Street's Tunnel
- Idyll
- Open/Back Up! (breadth of field)
- Monk's Bird Book
- Painting from Science for Hui Ka-Kwong
- One In It's Oldest Body
- Ornithology
- Cowry She
- Pt. 5. Her Movement Buried By The Moment in Occurrence
- A Sampler
- Smell of Scratch
- Simple As One Two
- Alpine Glow In Magritte Landscapes
- Spontaneous Supremacies
- Point.
- Psalm
- The "State as Body" Aspect of Eunuch Rule
- The Counsel of Birds
- Untitled
- Ideas Gray Suits Bowler Hats Baal
- When The Mornin' Come
- Escape Training: Instructor's Flying Rappel
- Not Brought Up
- Someone Reaching Through A Window
- The Slant Away When The Mind In Thought.
- Notes:
- Printed in an edition of 600 copies.
- Poems.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Roberson, Ed. City eclogue.
- ISBN:
- 9781891190230
- 1891190237
- OCLC:
- 64024235
- Publisher Number:
- 99983668716
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