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Overview

Northwestern University Press is honored to inaugurate the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize series with Ed Roberson's Closest Pronunciation. Here is a teacher of poets studying his own assignments, questioning and seeking the generative capacity in looking at and seeing things that ends in the realization of a poem. In a line from the brief poem "Night Writing," from which the chapbook draws its title, he writes, "The word closest in pronunciation / To an ambulance's siren is 'wrong.'" The collection as a whole gives voice, often quiet but always profound, to many things overlooked and neglected in culture, nature, and everyday life.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780810128927
  • ISBN-10: 0810128926
  • Publisher: Northwestern University Press
  • Publish Date: January 2013
  • Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.9 x 0.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.1 pounds
  • Page Count: 36

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