Description

Wave Books, paperback

Publication Date: April 07, 2015

Publisher Marketing:Rohrer’s frequently beautiful, brief poems are rooted in specific images that initially seem unrelated–but which ultimately form a unity as meditations on how the ordinary distractions of everyday life can be seen as the source for almost everything important in life.–Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly

The poems in Matthew Rohrer’s seventh poetry collection are generated by, and embrace, friendships with the living, the dead, and the inanimate. Friends, family, and the urban peoplescape are gathered together in these poems, with more and more poetic voices joining in, and ending with poems written in collaboration with Kobayashi Issa, Yosa Buson, Matsuo Basho, and Hafiz.