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The University of Akron Press
- Prop Rockery
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: The University of Akron Press
- Series: Akron Series in Poetry
summary
Art is about something the way a cat is about the house," says Allen Grossman. This is abundantly true of Emily Rosko's poems in Prop Rockery, a condition she defines with a quote from King Lear: "a looped and windowed raggedness." And while this condition is "pretend," and these poems are indeed virtuoso performances, the despair, loneliness, lies, and miscommunication they examine are as real as anything in art. Parataxis and fragments meet rhyme and chewy-on-the-tongue Anglo Saxon diction at the axis of postmodern irony. Prop Rockery explodes in your mouth-no sugar, plenty of bite. -Natasha Sajé, author of Bend and Red Under the Skin
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- Prop Rockery
- pp. 5-6
- Troupe Song
- p. 10
- Jib Riddle
- p. 18
- Tract Song
- p. 20
- Mare’s Nest
- pp. 21-23
- [The lady stirs]
- pp. 26-27
- The Suit, a Letter
- p. 28
- Superstition
- p. 30
- Siren Song
- p. 33
- A Tundra of Misapplications
- pp. 34-35
- To Pasture
- p. 38
- Stock, Still
- p. 45
- Solar Complaint
- p. 52
- Lunar Complaint
- p. 53
- King of the Boars
- p. 55
- Two-Bit Song
- p. 56
- Accumulation Song
- p. 63
- The Songless Ha-Ha
- p. 65
- [I was not made a horse]
- pp. 66-67
- Ballad of the Face in the Rock
- pp. 70-71
Additional Information
ISBN
9781937378295
Related ISBN(s)
9781937378165
MARC Record
OCLC
813286370
Launched on MUSE
2012-07-18
Language
English
Open Access
No