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In Memory of Brilliance & Value

Year

2015

Language

ENGLISH

Publication Information

Saturnalia Books

Summary

In his third collection, Michael Robins unleashes the couplet to bring the pastoral past into the modern day, aligning images of grazing buffalo with those of torture and war. In the intersection between reality and imagination, with violence flowing like a river beneath us at all times, these lyric poems offer associative and sonic shifts that drive the speaker's narrative insights. Like a mad chef on a tear, Robins concocts small poetic miracles using equal parts wonder and terror. His dishes are meticulously crafted are served up with gusto. We cannot help but relish in them.

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