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Surrounded by Friends
Matthew Rohrer
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Description for Surrounded by Friends
Paperback. Matthew Rohrer at his best. Humorous, quotidian, urban, and conversational poems about family and friendship. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 144.
"Rohrer's frequently beautiful, brief poems are rooted in specific images that initially seem unrelated--but which ultimately form a unity as meditations on how the ordinary distractions of everyday life can be seen as the source for almost everything important in life."--Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly The poems in Matthew Rohrer's seventh poetry collection are generated by, and embrace, friendships with the living, the dead, and the inanimate. Friends, family, and the urban peoplescape are gathered together in these poems, with more and more poetic voices joining in, and ending with poems written "in collaboration" with Kobayashi Issa, Yosa Buson, Matsuo ... Read more
"Rohrer's frequently beautiful, brief poems are rooted in specific images that initially seem unrelated--but which ultimately form a unity as meditations on how the ordinary distractions of everyday life can be seen as the source for almost everything important in life."--Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly The poems in Matthew Rohrer's seventh poetry collection are generated by, and embrace, friendships with the living, the dead, and the inanimate. Friends, family, and the urban peoplescape are gathered together in these poems, with more and more poetic voices joining in, and ending with poems written "in collaboration" with Kobayashi Issa, Yosa Buson, Matsuo ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Wave Books United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9781940696034
SKU
V9781940696034
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About Matthew Rohrer
Matthew Rohrer is the author of Destroyer and Preserver (Wave Books, 2011), A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), Rise Up (Wave Books, 2007) and A Green Light (Verse Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Satellite (Verse Press, 2001), and co-author, with Joshua Beckman, of Nice Hat. Thanks. ... Read more
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