by Ed Roberson
edited and translated by Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb
Northwestern University Press, 2013
Paper: 978-0-8101-2892-7
Library of Congress Classification PS3568.O235C58 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54

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Northwestern University Press is honored 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 realization of a poem. In a line from the brief poem "Night Writing," from which the chapbook draws its title, he writes, "The word closest in pronunciation / To an ambulance’s siren is ‘wrong.’" The collection as a whole gives voice, often quiet but always profound, to many things overlooked and neglected in culture, nature, and everyday life.



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