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Praise Nothing: Poems (University of Arkansas Press Poetry)
Joshua Robbins
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Description for Praise Nothing: Poems (University of Arkansas Press Poetry)
Paperback. Num Pages: 68 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 137 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
In Praise Nothing, Joshua Robbins writes from a suburban landscape of strip mall bars and vacant lots in which addicts and itinerant preachers, hymns and the turnpike's whine are all made to confess, to testify to the hard truths of faith and doubt in middle-class America. In this arresting and finely crafted debut collection, readers travel a via negativa of sidewalk weeds and patched asphalt that meanders past cheap motels and laundromats, trailer parks, and corner churches to a place where a truant God aimlessly and endlessly drives the neighbourhood, where birds sing their ""fevered hymn / over the dusty ... Read more
In Praise Nothing, Joshua Robbins writes from a suburban landscape of strip mall bars and vacant lots in which addicts and itinerant preachers, hymns and the turnpike's whine are all made to confess, to testify to the hard truths of faith and doubt in middle-class America. In this arresting and finely crafted debut collection, readers travel a via negativa of sidewalk weeds and patched asphalt that meanders past cheap motels and laundromats, trailer parks, and corner churches to a place where a truant God aimlessly and endlessly drives the neighbourhood, where birds sing their ""fevered hymn / over the dusty ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
68
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557289971
SKU
V9781557289971
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Ref
99-1
About Joshua Robbins
Joshua Robbins is a lecturer in English at the University of Tennessee, USA. His poetry has been published in Third Coast, Copper Nickel, Mid-American Review, Best New Poets 2009, and elsewhere.
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