Destroyer and Preserver

Rohrer, Matthew

ISBN 10: 1933517506 / ISBN 13: 9781933517506

Published by Wave Books, Seattle, 2011

About this Item

Wave Books, Seattle, 2011. First edition, as stated. First printing, with full number line to 1. Limited hardcover edition. Full cream cloth; spine lettered in black. Fine in a near fine plain blue dust jacket, with a tiny stain to the front panel. Black endpapers. No publisher's price on jacket. 8vo. 71 pp. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector.
A limited hardcover issue of Matthew Rohrer's eighth collection, otherwise published primarily in paperback. Rohrer examines domestic life, fatherhood, politics, war, and the uneasy intrusion of public violence into ordinary private experience.

Seller Inventory # Rear-Poetry-Rohrer

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Destroyer and Preserver
• Publisher: Wave Books, Seattle
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1933517506
• ISBN 13: 9781933517506
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition, Limited Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

About this title

Synopsis

"Rohrer has an enchanting willingness to look outward, a willingness not to grasp the world using old means which have failed us, even if no new means present themselves ready-made."—Judges' citation, the 2005 International Griffin Poetry Prize

Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Matthew Rohrer illuminates the modern plight: trying to figure out how to be a thoughtful citizen, parent, and person as the landscape of terror and history worms its way into our everyday existence. Unnervingly humorous, casual, and tender, Rohrer's poems help us investigate our lives as he investigates his—openly and with a generous presence.

From "Dull Affairs":

How am I to concentrate
on the heavy and dull
affairs of state
with the sound of a baby having a dream
in the other room

Matthew Rohrer is the author of five previous books of poetry, including A Plate of Chicken, Rise Up, Satellite, and A Green Light, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also co-author of Nice Hat. Thanks. with Joshua Beckman, with whom he has participated in performances at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle. He received the Pushcart Prize and his first book, A Hummock in the Malookas, was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at New York University.

About the Author

Matthew Rohrer is the author of A Plate of Chicken, Rise Up, A Green Light, Satellite, and A Hummock in the Malookas. With Joshua Beckman he wrote Nice Hat. Thanks. and recorded the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty.

His poems have been widely anthologized and have appeared in many journals. He’s received the Hopwood Award for poetry and a Pushcart prize. A Hummock in the Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series, and A Green Light was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Recently he has participated in residencies/performances at the Museum of Modern Art (New York City) and the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle).

Matthew Rohrer was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was raised in Oklahoma, and attended universities in Ann Arbor, Dublin, Ireland and Iowa City. He teaches in the creative writing program at NYU and lives in Brooklyn.