Satellite

SatelliteBy Matthew Rohrer Description Reviews It was a good day and I was about to do something important and good, but then I unscrewed the pen I was using In this follow up collection to National Poetry Series winner A Hummock in the Malookas, Rohrers poems play against convention, finding dark, surreal underpinnings in the seemingly innocent objects and experiences of everyday life. Direct, humorous and disquieting, Satellite demonstrates the unique

Michael Klein

neurotic humanism and composed with thrilling deftness and control

Long listed for the 2019 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

The Boston Globe

Cynthia Arrieu King

afflicted poems attend to the writer’s lifelong obsessions with being and mortality

Sharma writes candidly of the elegized’s personality — “your death was as sudden as your rage” — and of her unanswered anxieties: “Did he tell the doctor he didn’t love me anymore and that’s why I wasn’t allowed into those conversations

reaching prophetically

whose core and soul was devoted to his own progressions

he does so with the self-scrutiny necessary to bring those lessons to bear on his own work

ISBN# 9781933517766 (7x9

Artfully translated from the Russian by poet and scholar Sarah Valentine