| Author/Contributor(s): | Riley, Atsuro |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
| Date: | 04/01/2010 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.