Something has to happen next
By: Andrew Michael Roberts
Series: Winner of the Iowa Poetry prize
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9781587297946
Description: "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.