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" Something has to happen next / "
Andrew Michael Roberts
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BL
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645730
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Roberts, Andrew Michael,1971-
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| Title & Author
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Something has to happen next /\ Andrew Michael Roberts
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed
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| Publication Statement
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Iowa City :: University of Iowa Press,, ©2009
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| Series Statement
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Winner of the Iowa Poetry prize
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56 pages ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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9781587297946
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: 1587297949
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| Contents
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Dear wild abandon: Dear wild abandon, -- We are not birds -- Explain yourself -- Among the beautiful illusions -- Poem written on the mirror of her skin -- Dear man on fire, -- Tragic figure in a rearview -- Moon -- what I know of the moon -- Strip mall -- Birds of paradise -- Before sleep takes us -- Swallows built their nest around it -- When we were giant -- Again I strike your window in full flight -- Dear artificial heart, -- Pledge of allegiance -- Face of Jesus in my bite bruise -- Laundromat at the end of the world -- Dear special theory or relativity, -- You can hear it throught the cumulative heartbeats -- You never touched me -- they molt in hopes of airier plumage -- Dear quark, -- Prove you wrong -- End -- Dear catastrophe
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Something has to happen next: Rehearsal -- This or something like it -- Cyclist passes with a cello on his back -- Lamb -- Story of my beard -- Other people's machines -- Winter museum -- What we know -- Moments before the crash landing are clearest -- Serendipity -- Safe shower -- Stalactite -- Somewhere a buried bone awaits -- For the dispossessed -- In the night of the wob the spirit quickens into flesh -- Coyotes -- Chosen -- World, -- Levitator's apprentice -- Man of the year -- California -- If nothing else -- Listen -- I'll pack a pretty shirt
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| Abstract
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"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?"--Jacket
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American poetry-- Oregon-- 21st century
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| Dewey Classification
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811/.6
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PS3618.O31543S66 2009
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