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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherNorthwestern University Press
ISBN-100810128926
ISBN-139780810128927
eBay Product ID (ePID)117302586
Product Key Features
Book TitleClosest Pronunciation : Poems
Number of Pages36 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2013
TopicGeneral
GenrePoetry
AuthorEd Roberson
Book SeriesDrinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight2.1 Oz
Item Length6.6 in
Item Width4.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2012-031401
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal811.54
SynopsisNorthwestern University Press is honored to inaugurate the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize series with Ed Roberson's Closest Pronunciation. Here is a teacher of poets studying his own assignments, questioning and seeking the generative capacity in looking at and seeing things that ends in the realization of a poem. In a line from the brief poem "Night Writing," from which the chapbook draws its title, he writes, "The word closest in pronunciation / To an ambulance's siren is ' wrong .'" The collection as a whole gives voice, often quiet but always profound, to many things overlooked and neglected in culture, nature, and everyday life.