Romey's Order

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.

Author: Atsuro Riley
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 04/01/2010
Series: Phoenix Poets (Paperback)
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 9.23h x 5.88w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9780226719443