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Romey's Order
Atsuro Riley
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Description for Romey's Order
Paperback. A sequence of poems voiced by an invented (and inventive) boy-speaker called Romey, set alongside a river in the South Carolina lowcountry. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 122.
From "Chord": come the marrow-hours when he couldn't sleep, the boy river-brinked and chorded. Mud-bedded himself here in the root-mesh; bided. Sieved our alluvial sounds - "Romey's Order" is an indelible sequence of poems voiced by an invented (and inventive) boy-speaker called Romey, set alongside a river in the South Carolina lowcountry. As the word-furious eye and voice of these poems, Romey urgently records - and tries to order - the objects, inscape, injuries, and idiom of his 'blood-home' and childhood world. Sounding out the nerves and nodes of language to transform 'every burn-mark and blemish', to 'bind our river-wrack ... Read more
From "Chord": come the marrow-hours when he couldn't sleep, the boy river-brinked and chorded. Mud-bedded himself here in the root-mesh; bided. Sieved our alluvial sounds - "Romey's Order" is an indelible sequence of poems voiced by an invented (and inventive) boy-speaker called Romey, set alongside a river in the South Carolina lowcountry. As the word-furious eye and voice of these poems, Romey urgently records - and tries to order - the objects, inscape, injuries, and idiom of his 'blood-home' and childhood world. Sounding out the nerves and nodes of language to transform 'every burn-mark and blemish', to 'bind our river-wrack ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226719443
SKU
V9780226719443
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About Atsuro Riley
Atsuro Riley was brought up in the South Carolina lowcountry. His work has appeared in Poetry, Threepenny Review, and The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets. He has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and the Wood Prize from Poetry magazine.
Reviews for Romey's Order
"The Phoenix Poets list contains a number of poets currently on my list of favorites. This is a strong, vital series that has given voice to some of the best voices in American poetry today." - Billy Collins "The best literature forces you out of your old eyes, and that's what happens here. Atsuro Riley's Romey's Order is deep craft ... Read more