Body Turn to Rain brings together work from Robbins five previous collections, plus forty new poemsthat continue his wise meditation upon the American experience in this time, with all its variation, expanse, history, clownishness, beauty, and uncertainty. The book represents a way station in the life work of a thoughtful and finely tuned sensibility such as come among us all too rarely. And it is comprised of poems that walk out to meet you as though you were a friend.
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It is conceptual freshness, and a beautiful instinct for emergent shape, that makes this poetry radioactive. Robbins can spin a hitherto undiscovered cosmos out of a single, wayward proposition, but he never loses footing in the radiant, mortal, given world. Richest invention is tempered by submission to the textures of material and social and ethical life. What more can one ask of a book of poems? -- Linda Gregerson The poems are grounded in the geography of the American west-iots seasons, its people, its destruction-and lifted by the music Robbins coaxes out of the language. They reveal a sympathy with nature and a passion for humane awareness in a culture which often seems to tell us merely to consume and, "Be happy you know nothing. -- William Trowbridge
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2 Moving the Dead River West |
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"Northumbrian Miner at His Evening Meal" |
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The End of a Long Winter North in the Northern Hemisphere |
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Near Roslin Institute, Midlothian, Scotland |
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THE INVISIBLE WEDDING <<<<<< 1984 |
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Whaleships in Winter Quarters at Herschel Island |
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A Glider Takes Off from the Cliff |
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A Compass for My Daughter |
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March Day on a North County Marsh |
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FAMOUS PERSONS WE HAVE KNOWN <<<<<<2000 |
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Lon Chaney, Jr., at the Supermarket in Capistrano Beach |
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Surfing Accident at Trestles Beach |
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"To My Very Good Friend, [ Signed] Jimmy Hoffa" |
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The High Lake Past the Field |
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May on the Wintered-Over Ground |
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Crossing the Arctic Waste with Ana |
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After Being Quiet for a Long Time |
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Moon in Smoke, Teton Park |
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THE UNTESTED HAND <<<<<< 2008 |
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RADIOACTIVE CITY <<<<<< 2009 |
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In Manhattan, The Oracles Do Not Lie to Him |
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Their Hero Strapped to His Chair at the Altar of Forsaken Maladies |
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At the End of Winter, He Keeps to Travel Plans Despite a Terror Alert |
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OTHER AMERICAS <<<<<< 2010 |
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Aunt Viola Hears Peacocks |
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He Will Never Be Mexican Like Oscar Quiroz |
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A Lake in Northwest Montana |
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Richard Robbins was raised in California and Montana, taught for a number of years in Oregon and, since 1984, has taught at Mankato State University, in Mankato, Minnesota, where he continues to direct the graduate creative writing program. He has published five books of poems, most recently Radioactive City and Other Americas.
