Prop Rockery

Art is about something the way a cat is about the house," says Allen Grossman. This is abundantly true of Emily Rosko's poems in Prop Rockery,a condition she defines with a quote from King Lear: "a looped and windowed raggedness." And while this condition is "pretend," and these poems are indeed virtuoso performances, the despair, loneliness, lies, andmiscommunication they examine are as real as anything in art. Parataxis and fragments meet rhyme and chewy-on-the-tongue Anglo Saxon diction at the axis of postmodern irony. Prop Rockery explodes in your mouth-no sugar, plenty of bite. -Natasha Sajé, author of Bend and Red Under the Skin

About the author

Emily Rosko is the author of Raw Goods Inventory, winner of the 2005 Iowa Poetry Prize and the 2007 Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers from Shenandoah. A former Wallace Stegner Writing Fellow at Stanford University, she also is the past recipient of Poetry magazine's Ruth Lilly Fellowship and a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Rosko
• Publisher: The University of Akron Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 10.02.2012
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Fiction > Poetry, drama
• EAN: 9781937378158
• ISBN: 978-1-937378-15-8
• Pages: 92
• Dimensions (packing): 15.5 x 23.1 x 1.3 cm
• Weight (packing): 272 g
• Series: Akron Series in Poetry (Hardco; Akron Series in Poetry (Hardco
• Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / General; Poetry; POETRY / American / General