Something has to happen next

"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.

Year

2009

Language

English

Series

Winner of the Iowa Poetry prize

Publisher

University of Iowa Press

Editions

1

Pages

56

ISBN

9781587297946

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