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Closest Pronunciation(First Edition)
Poems (The Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize)
von Ed Roberson
Paperback, 36 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2013 von Northwestern University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-2892-7, ISBN: 0-8101-2892-6

"Northwestern University Press is honoured to inaugurate the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize series with Ed Roberson's Closest Pronunciation. Here is a teacher of poets studying his own assignments, questioning and seeking the generative capacity in looking at and seeing things that ends in the realisation of a poem. In a line from the brief poem ""Night Writing,"" from which the chapbook draws its title, he writes, ""The word close ..."

Etai-Eken(1st Edition)
(Pitt Poetry Series)
von Ed Roberson
Paperback, 96 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1975 von University Of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5263-3, ISBN: 0-8229-5263-7

"Etai-Eken is a legend told in a series, a cycle of poems, which is to say, told in different languages. The action of the poems in the poem is their moving in and out of the legend by the changes of access to the larger legend; an access of the present in the ancient, of the present’s knowledge and experience of it."

MPH and Other Road Poems
(Paperback)
von Ed Roberson
Paperback, 153 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2021 von Verge Books, United States
ISBN-13: 978-0-9889885-8-3, ISBN: 0-9889885-8-5

"In 2015, while, in his words, "dismantling my house in New Jersey and preparing it for sale," Ed Roberson discovered in some envelopes in his attic a manuscript he thought lost, drawn from the experiences of the summer of 1970, when the ..."

To See the Earth Before the End of the World(Reprint)
von Ed Roberson
Paperback, 180 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2017 von Wesleyan
ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-6949-3, ISBN: 0-8195-6949-6

"Winner of the Voelcker Award (PEN America) (2016)In To See the Earth Before the End of the World Ed Roberson presents us with 120 new poems, each speaking in his unique voice and seen through his unique eye. Earth and sky, neighborhood life and ancient myths, the art of seeing and the architecture of the imagination are all among the subjects of these poems. Recurring images and ideas construct a complex picture of our world, ourselves, ..."

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Word of Navigational Challenges: New and Selected Work (Native Americans of the Northeast)
von Ed Roberson
Paperback, 144 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1998 von Talisman House, Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-1-883689-79-7, ISBN: 1-883689-79-1

"Poetry. African American Studies. Michael Palmer writes, "Ed Roberson offers us, up front, the nerve-edge of poetic speech, sequences of the unanticipated, as poetry of real significance is meant to do. This generous and much-needed selection graphs the development of a poet committed to the articulation of a resistant, multi-faceted identity. It should affirm his place, at last, as one of the most deeply innovative and critically acute ..."

To See the Earth Before the End of the World(1st Edition)
(Wesleyan Poetry Series)
von Ed Roberson
Hardcover, 180 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2010 von Wesleyan
ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-6950-9, ISBN: 0-8195-6950-X

"In To See the Earth Before the End of the World Ed Roberson presents us with 120 new poems, each speaking in his unique voice and seen through his unique eye. Earth and sky, neighborhood life and ancient myths, the art of seeing and the architecture of the imagination are all among the subjects of these poems. Recurring images and ideas construct a complex picture of our world, ourselves, and the manifold connections tying them together ..."

Mixed Blood
Number 1
von Imamu Amiri Baraka, Jen Hofer, Erica Hunt, Ed Roberson, Juliana Spahr, Ii Rambsy Howard, Dalkey Archive Press
Paperback, 87 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2005 von Dalkey Archive Pr
ISBN-13: 978-1-56478-381-3, ISBN: 1-56478-381-2

"Mixed Blood is interested in the contemporary African-American avant-garde, writers experimenting with form and content in the post-Black Arts moment; but it is also interested in experimental practices (post-L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Oulipo, etc.) ..."

Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In(1st Edition)
(Iowa Poetry Prize)
von Ed Roberson
Paperback, 166 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1995 von University Of Iowa Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-87745-510-3, ISBN: 0-87745-510-4

" There is no one else like Ed Roberson—certainly there is no other poet like him. His is an oblique, eccentric, totally fascinating talent. Because of these qualities, it may seem that he is difficult to follow—as Ornette Coleman or Gabriel García Márquez or Romare Beardon seems difficult to track at times. But his strength of vision is always evident; the quickness and inclusiveness of his voice can sweep a reader along into new and re ..."

Atmosphere Conditions
von Ed Roberson
Paperback, 128 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1999 von Green Integer
ISBN-13: 978-1-55713-392-2, ISBN: 1-55713-392-1

"A winner of the 1998 National Poetry Series competition, selected by Nathaniel Mackey."

When Thy King Is A Boy(1st Edition)
(Pitt Poetry Series)
von Ed Roberson
Paperback, 88 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1970 von University Of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5214-5, ISBN: 0-8229-5214-9

"C.D. Wright has described Roberson’s work as “lyric poetry of meticulous design and lasting emotional significance," comparing its musical qualities to the work of saxophonist Steve Lacy, jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach."

Wesleyan Poetry
To See the Earth Before the End of the World
von Ed Roberson
180 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2011 von Wesleyan University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-7101-4, ISBN: 0-8195-7101-6

"Wesleyan University Press Middletown CT 06459 www.wesleyan.edu/wespress © 2010 Ed Roberson All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Roberson, Ed. To see the earth before the end of the world / Ed Roberson. p. cm. — ( Wesleyan poetry) ISBN 978-0-8195-6950-9 (cloth : alk. paper) I. Title. PS3568. O235T6 2010 811'.54—dc22 2010027094 Wesleyan University ..."

Black Nature
Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
von Camille T. Dungy, Elizabeth Alexander, Alvin Aubert, Gerald Barrax, Remica Bingham, Cyrus Cassells, Lucille Clifton, Wanda Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Cornelius Eady, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joanne Gabbin, Nikki Giovanni, Kendra Hamilton, Terrance Hayes, Sean Hill, Langston Hughes, Major Jackson, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Douglas Kearney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Clarence Major, Mark Mcmorris, E. Miller, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Indigo Moor, Lenard Moore, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Gregory Pardlo, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, Carl Phillips, Stephanie Pruitt, Claudia Rankine, Tim Seibles, Evie Shockley, Patricia Smith, Jean Toomer, Natasha Trethewey, Alice Walker, Sterling A. Brown, Margaret Walker, Afaa Weaver, Al Young, Kwame Alexander, Tara Betts, Arna Bontemps, Shane Book, Gwendolyn Brooks, Melvin Dixon, James A. Emanuel, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Ross Gay, C. S. Giscombe, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Myronn Hardy, Michael S. Harper, Janice N. Harrington, Robert Hayden, George Moses Horton, Ravi Howard, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Helene Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, June Jordan, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Audre Lorde, Devorah Major, Shara Mccallum, George Marion Mcclellan, Claude Mckay, Marilyn Nelson, G. E. Patterson, Ishmael Reed, Ed Roberson, Mona Lisa Saloy, Reginald Shepherd, Anne Spencer, Amber Flora Thomas, Melvin B. Tolson, Askia M. Touré, Wendy S. Walters, Anthony Walton, Phillis Wheatley, Albery Whitman, Sherley Anne Williams, Richard Wright, Toni Wynn, Frank X. Walker
Paperback, 432 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3431-8, ISBN: 0-8203-3431-6

"Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated.Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry―anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition o ..."

When Thy King is a Boy
Poems
von Ed Roberson
89 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1970
ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-8081-0, ISBN: 0-8229-8081-9

When Thy King is a Boy(1st Edition)
von Ed. Roberson
Hardcover, Veröffentlicht 1970 von U Niversity Of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-3197-3, ISBN: 0-8229-3197-4

Thaddeus Mosley
(Hardback or Cased Book)
von Jessica Bell Brown, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Connie Choi, Brett Littman, Ed Roberson, Thaddeus Mosley, Essays By Brett...
Hardcover, 296 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2020 von Karma Books, New York
ISBN-13: 978-1-949172-37-9, ISBN: 1-949172-37-6

""Thaddeus Mosley's monumental freestanding sculptures are crafted with the felled trees of Pittsburgh's urban canopy, via the city's Forestry Division; wood from local sawmills; and reclaimed building materials."

City Eclogue(2nd Edition)
(Atelos Project)
von Ed Roberson
Paperback, 136 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2006 von Atelos
ISBN-13: 978-1-891190-23-0, ISBN: 1-891190-23-7

"Poetry. African American Studies. Ed Roberson might no longer live in Pittsburgh, but the city in which he was born and raised still leaves its fragmented structures etched throughout his poetry. A city of hard work and hard times, the now-impoverished neighborhoods that had at one time stood as centers of jazz and art; the hills, the rivers, the skyscraping iron and steel, and the pain. Though most of the poems in this collection do no ..."

Black Nature(Updated)
Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
von Camille T. Dungy, Toni Wynn, Alvin Aubert, Gerald Barrax, Remica Bingham, Cyrus Cassells, Lucille Clifton, Wanda Coleman, Elizabeth Alexander, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Cornelius Eady, Kendra Hamilton, Terrance Hayes, Sean Hill, Langston Hughes, Major Jackson, Douglas Kearney, Clarence, Nikki Giovanni, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Mark Mcmorris, E. Miller, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Indigo Moor, Lenard Moore, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Gregory Pardlo, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, Carl Phillips, Stephanie Pruitt, Claudia Rankine, Tim Seibles, Evie Shockley, Jean Toomer, Natasha Trethewey, Alice Walker, Frank X. Walker, Margaret Walker, Afaa Weaver, Al Young, Kwame Alexander, Tara Betts, Shane Book, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling A. Brown, Melvin Dixon, James A. Emanuel, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Ross Gay, C. S. Giscombe, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Myronn Hardy, Michael S. Harper, Janice N. Harrington, Robert Hayden, George Moses Horton, Ravi Howard, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Helene Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, Professor Audre Lorde, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Devorah Major, Shara Mccallum, George Marion Mcclellan, Claude Mckay, Marilyn Nelson, G. E. Patterson, Ishmael Reed, Ed Roberson, Mona Lisa Saloy, Reginald Shepherd, Anne Spencer, Amber Flora Thomas, Wendy S. Walters, Anthony Walton, Phillis Wheatley, Albery Whitman, Sherley Anne Williams, Richard Wright, Professor Joanne Gabbin, Professor June Jordan, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Patricia Smith, Arna Bontemps, Melvin B. Tolson, Askia M. Touré, Joanne Gabbin
Hardcover, 432 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3277-2, ISBN: 0-8203-3277-1

"This book presents the natural world seen through the eyes of black poets. ""Black Nature"" is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest po ..."

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Word of Navigational Challenges : New and Selected Work
von Ed Roberson
Hardcover, 836 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1998 von Talisman House Pub
ISBN-13: 978-1-883689-80-3, ISBN: 1-883689-80-5

"Roberson, one critic has said, "is one of those deeply skilled poets -- likeWilliam Bronk, Jack Spicer, and Gustaf Sobin -- who have worked far outside that ..."

Iowa Poetry Prize Ser.
Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In : Poems
von Ed Roberson
Veröffentlicht 1995
ISBN-13: 978-1-58729-205-7, ISBN: 1-58729-205-X

Aquarium Works
von Ed Roberson
Veröffentlicht 2022
ISBN-13: 978-1-945129-05-6, ISBN: 1-945129-05-0

"For several years in the late 1960s, he was employed as a diver and tankman at the newly formed Pittsburgh AquaZoo (now the PPG Aquarium), where he fed, cared for, and in some cases trained the creatures described in this collection."

Books by Ed Roberson