Overview
Romey's Order is an indelible sequence of poems voiced by an invented (and inventive) boy-speaker called Romey, set alongside a river in the South Carolina lowcountry.
As the word-furious eye and voice of these poems, Romey urgently records--and tries to order--the objects, inscape, injuries, and idiom of his "blood-home" and childhood world. Sounding out the nerves and nodes of language to transform "every burn-mark and blemish," to "bind our river-wrack and leavings," Romey seeks to forge finally (if even for a moment) a chord in which he might live. Intently visceral, aural, oral, Atsuro Riley's poems bristle with musical and imaginative pleasures, with story-telling and picture-making of a new and wholly unexpected kind.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780226719443
- ISBN-10: 0226719448
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publish Date: April 2010
- Dimensions: 9.23 x 5.88 x 0.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.27 pounds
- Page Count: 64
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