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Romey's Order (Phoenix Poets) Book
Romey's Order is an indelible sequence of poems voiced by an invented (and inventive) boy 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. "Atsuro Riley's Romey's Order is a dazzling first … read more...book. . . among the year's best. . .The lexical fireworks power the narrative with physicality. The pleasures of Romey's Order are wondrous and manifold."--Dallas Morning News "One of the most exciting and distinctive debut collections in years."--The Believer "A stunning first book of poems. . . . Even read silently, Mr. Riley's delicious words roll and roil in the mouth."--New York Times "Originality is easier said than done. Most works of art, like most consumer goods, are versions or outright imitations. In contemporary poetry, even the so-called experimental often seems derivative and weighted with conventions. But when a new book of poems is as different from precedents as Atsuro Riley's Romey's Order, readers should take special notice."--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Atsuro Riley's Romey's Order is a first book with rare, powerful distinction--experimental in its forms and syntax, yet familiar as an old-time fiddle for its Appalachian twang, landscape, and imagery." --Kenyon Review "Atsuro Riley's strange, beautiful and unsettling debut is like nothing else you will read this year."--Hudson ReviewRead More read less...
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- 0226719448
- 9780226719443
- A Riley
- 23 April 2010
- Chicago University Press
- Paperback (Book)
- 64
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