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by: Howard W. Robertson
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780972323420
ISBN: 0972323422
Label: Clear Cut Pr Llc
Manufacturer: Clear Cut Pr Llc
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: January 30, 2004
Publisher: Clear Cut Pr Llc
Sales Rank: 2367522
Studio: Clear Cut Pr Llc
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
From 1995-96, poet Howard W. Robertson worked as a long-haul truck driver in the American West and British Columbia. This experience inspired 'Ode to certain interstates,' the thirteen-part title poem of this collection. In between pauses at truck stops and rest areas, the author meditates on (among other matters) Kant, the Kalapuyans, Basho, and the 'best buffet in the West.' The eight additional poems in the book, such as 'Ode to this small stick' and 'The transcendental laughter of Eleanor,' use a refined intelligence to probe the daily intersections of the sacred and banal.
Robertson's ability with Russian, French, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, and numerous other languages, together with the tremendous breadth and eclecticism of his reading, combine to make his poems an astonishing confluence of histories and cultures. To this density of sources, Robertson brings a voice as colloquial and chatty as Frank O'Hara's. If O'Hara had been a straight, married librarian in Eugene, Oregon, Clear Cut's editor Matthew Stadler once remarked, he would have written exactly these poems.
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