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  • As if all physical display…*
  • Ed Roberson (bio)

As if all physical display were not thatmiracle of intent on that mosaic,our bone tile at the end of the body's firing

                                         the glaze crackling long after that                                         we take as music.                                        the swing low of timetables.

Coltrane can be heardin the silence at the endof one recording to say

                                        help      like that. that take                                         of stand to wait for a hand while                                         more hands (practicing) on something

rather than a guess(as of buses & trainsat which people also standing look up

                                         though at          differently a mosaic)

an art of it      a masteryapproachmakes it not a wait to be completed      somewhere

                                                             but rather here                                                             already touched up

                                         in practice                                        made                  up        all over the place [End Page 640]

Ed Roberson

Ed Roberson is Distinguished Artist in Residence at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He is author of eight books of poetry: The New Wing of the Labyrinth (Singing Horse Press, 2009), City Eclogue (Atelos, 2006), Atmosphere Conditions (Sun & Moon Press, 2000; winner of the 2000 National Poetry Award), Just In / Word of Navigational Challenges: New and Selected Poems (Talisman House, 1998), Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In (University of Iowa Press, 1995; winner of the 1994 Iowa Poetry Prize), Lucid Interval as Integral Music (University of Iowa Press, 1995; winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize), Etai-Eken (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975), and When Thy King Is a Boy (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970). In 2008, he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.

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* "As if all physical display…" will be published in Ed Roberson's forthcoming volume of poetry, To See the Earth Before the End of the World (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2010). Printed with permission from Wesleyan University Press.

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