New PDF release: something has to happen next (Iowa Poetry Prize)

By andrew michael roberts

ISBN-10: 1587297949

ISBN-13: 9781587297946

The poems in something has to ensue next, if given the opportunity, may peer down inquisitively from a good peak; they converse of quietness, namelessness, the reachlessness of affection, the fortune of animals and their silence, apocalypse, abandonment, beginnings, and endings.

Working with brevity and compression, Andrew Michael Roberts first imagines how small he can opt for a poem and nonetheless hold a few kind of emotional or imagistic heart. Then, published from this challenge, the remainder of his playful, unforeseen poems extend to fill a global with imagery, emotion, and sound.

What Roberts calls “simply a publication of small poems” grew out of his obsessions with time and disaster and love and abandonment—what is usually attainable, virtually attained, yet misplaced on the final minute. whilst whatever ends or while every little thing ends, whatever else should always take place next—what will or not it's, and who may be there to call and love and ruin it?

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Later, the sea, our little strings singing to the astonishment of lovesick whales. 42 safe shower ........................................................... my cap is a condom stretched over my head. we’re ready, she in her snorkel and pink water-wings. 43 stalactite ........................................................... hang on little tooth, said the mountain drawing strings of bats like a chirping black floss. 44 somewhere a buried bone awaits ...........................................................

Something in me says that man’s got a gun in his coat. he’s ready when the storm throws open the door and shoots its hail in sideways to make way for the moon crashing down. 21 dear special theory of relativity, ........................................................... please accept our sincere apologies. nothing’s relative since you’ve been gone, the sunbeams halted halfway down the sky, the long train of cars dead in the street, blurry from the rush of trees racing past on their way to work.

This is your city. 53 if nothing else ........................................................... remember winter by the way the puddles froze around their trash and became beautiful. useless, how the skinny crows starved scratching at their mirrors. did we love enough, barefoot in our nest of broken grass blades. at the edge of a forest didn’t we drive through a deer’s lingering breath and forget everything. someday we’re forgiven i think. i always wanted you with the cold green feathers of your iris folded back, waiting for the first fingers of sun.

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