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| Change, the Skinny Man |
| Robert Gregory |
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| Winner of the 2001 Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry |
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Poetry
89 Pages
ISBN: 0-89924-114-X
Paper: $14.95
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Of Robert Gregory's poems, Madeline DeFrees has said: "Here is a sensibility so limber that it requires the reader to reinvent imagination. Some of the magic inheres in the energy and momentum of the poems, a rhythmic flow that carries us along in its current. Always surprising, never merely arbitrary, the language seems inexhaustible as it works the grit of ordinary life into instants of startling beauty."
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| Robert Gregory lives in Lexington, Kentucky, in a house festooned with idle, worthless cats, works at a manufacturing research center, gigs in the area with a tiny semi-bluegrass band called New Standard Rain. Has published three previous books of poetry: Interferences, Boy Picked Up by the Wind, and Clouds & Green Police. Has a PhD from the University of California—Irvine, an honorable discharge from the USMC and a certificate in mixology from the International Institute of Bartending of Pittsburgh, PA. Has been the disbelieving yet grateful recipient of grants for poetry from New York State, Florida and the NEA. |
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| Praise for Robert Gregory |
"I have been reading Boy Picked Up by the Wind out loud and listen: these poems KNOCK ME OUT!" I stand (float) in awe. Thank you for the best gift of the season! WOW! I'll spread the word."
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—Naomi Shihab Nye .......... |
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| "Robert Gregory is a different sort of guide. The country he travels hasn't yet been mapped, it is, in fact, coming into being as he speaks. It is not inappropriate to proceed backwards on the terrain of Mr. Gregory's work, which is accessible from any direction, although basically one ought to read from the beginning to the end because a narrative of sorts exists. This narrative... advances between the cracks of the babble of the of the Tower of Babel where sense may or may not still persist. The delights are many and one may find in those intersects other things besides sense." |
—Andrei Cordrescu .......... |
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