Books by Matthew Rohrer and Complete Book Reviews
Matthew Rohrer, Author . Verse $12 (86p) ISBN 978-0-9703672-3-5
Laundromats, oddball flora, a toy tomahawk, "many falling rats," a "robotroid girlfriend" and a series of twice-told childhood stories distinguish the determinedly eccentric, sometimes winning poems in Rohrer's second volume....
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Matthew Rohrer, Author . Verse $12 (96p) ISBN 978-0-9723487-7-5
Rohrer won the National Poetry Series 10 years ago with A Hummock in the Malookas
; this fourth book of poetry follows hard on the heels of Nice Hat
. Thanks
, his comic-verse collaboration with Joshua Beckman. Though it includes serious ecological...
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Matthew Rohrer, Author . Wave $14 (65p) ISBN 978-1-933517-18-6
Hip, humorous, ironic, winking and deceptively footloose, the 17 stylish poems and sequences of Rohrer's fifth collection take a skewed look at the politics and passages of contemporary life. Written in jagged columns, these free verse poems...
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Matthew Rohrer, Author . Ugly Duckling $15 (64p) ISBN 978-1-933254-55-5
“I remember it vividly, where I was, the day I learned not to fear mental phenomena,” declares the prolific Rohrer (Rise Up
) in this 55-part series of seven-line poems, each line a sentence long. What is thinking, and where do thoughts...
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Matthew Rohrer, Author W. W. Norton & Company $17.95 (74p) ISBN 978-0-393-03798-2
Rohrer, a hip young poet whose first collection here has been selected as a 1994 National Poetry Series winner by Mary Oliver, offers a clue to his work by quoting for an epigraph the surrealist painter, Rene Magritte. Rohrer's imagery is intensely...
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Matthew Rohrer. Wave (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-933517-50-6
Rohrer writes poems that crackle and sputter, often branching toward new meaning and emotion within the span of a single line, as in the book's opening poem, where "the universe/ is a long sentence/ according to our instruments/ the oldest songs are/
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Matthew Rohrer. Wave (Consortium, dist.), $18 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-1-940696-03-4
Urbanized and delicate, contemplative and wry, the poems in this latest collection from Rohrer (Destroyer and Preserver) explore the loneliness that thrives alongside (and in spite of) overpopulated cities, and the friendship and assembly offered by
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Matthew Rohrer. Wave, $16 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-1-950268-04-7
The latest from Rohrer (The Others) is a surreal experiment in which the poet conceived of each poem’s title and first line immediately upon waking, then crafted additional lines around the initial dream-state premise. In the afterword, Rohrer notes
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Matthew Rohrer. Wave, $22 trade paper (112p) ISBN 979-8-89106-009-8
In his meditative ninth collection, Rohrer (The Others) reflects with infectious wonder on the most important things in life—among them family, books, and natural and human-made landscapes. He captures the gray ennui of deep winter—“Dingy February I
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