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Romey's Order

Romey's Order

Riley, Atsuro

Paperback

Series: Phoenix Poets

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0226719448
ISBN13: 9780226719443
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Apr 1 2010
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.88 Depth: 9.23
Language: English

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 and leavings, Romey seeks to forge finally (if even for a moment) a chord in which he might live. Intently visceral, aural, oral, Atsuro Riley's poems bristle with musical and imaginative pleasures, with story-telling and picture-making of a new and wholly unexpected kind.

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