Closest Pronunciation

by Ed Roberson

Northwestern University Press is honored to inaugurate the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize series with Ed Roberson's Closest Pronunciation. Here is a teacher of poets studying his own assignments, questioning and seeking the generative capacity in looking at and seeing things that ends in the realization of a poem. In a line from the brief poem "Night Writing," from which the chapbook draws its title, he writes, "The word closest in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810128926
• ISBN13: 9780810128927
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 36 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.9" x 6.6"