A Green Light

Rohrer, Matthew

ISBN 10: 0972348778 / ISBN 13: 9780972348775

Published by Verse Press, Amherst, MA, 2004

About this Item

81pp. Tiny name at head of first page.

Seller Inventory # PB123314

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Green Light
• Publisher: Verse Press, Amherst, MA
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0972348778
• ISBN 13: 9780972348775
• Binding: Card Wrappers
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry Bookshop Catalogue

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Synopsis

Matthew Rohrer’s simple, hilarious, generous and strangely disquieting poems conjure versions of the most familiar aspects of our lives—friendship, marriage, childhood, work—into which intrude incongruous, peculiar, fantastical, yet somehow totally recognizable elements. Over and over these poems leave us convinced that we’ve learned something very important and mysterious, yet we can’t say exactly what.

About the Author

Matthew Rohrer was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and grew up in Oklahoma. He attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, University College Dublin, and the University of Michigan, where he won the Avery Hopwood Award for poetry. His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas, was a winner of the National Poetry Series and chosen as a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1995. Mary Oliver called his work "beautiful and disquieting," and Harvard Review notes that his poems are "everywhere marked by freshness and originality." He has appeared on NPR's All Things Considered - The Book Show, and is a poetry editor of Fence.