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Informationen zum Autor Atsuro Riley is the author of Heard-Hoard (University of Chicago Press, 2021), winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, and Romey's Order (University of Chicago Press, 2010), winner of the Whiting Writers' Award, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, The Believer Poetry Award, and the Witter Bynner Award from the Library of Congress. His honors include the Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, and the Wood Prize given by Poetry magazine. His poems have been anthologized in The Open Door: 100 Poems--100 Years of Poetry Magazine, The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall, The Oxford Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, Poems of the American South, The McSweeney's Book of Poets Picking Poets, Poems from Far and Wide, Vinegar and Char, and Gracious. Brought up in the South Carolina lowcountry, Riley lives in San Francisco. Klappentext "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. Zusammenfassung A sequence of poems voiced by an invented (and inventive) boy-speaker called Romey! set alongside a river in the South Carolina lowcountry.
