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.
ISBN: | 9780226719443 |
Publication date: | 23rd April 2010 |
Author: | Atsuro Riley |
Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press an imprint of University of Chicago Press |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 64 pages |
Series: | Phoenix Poets |
Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |