Room Service: Poems, Meditations, Outcries & Remarks: Poems, Meditations, Outcries & Remarks

By Ron Carlson

How did one of America s most gifted fabulists come to write a collection of poetry? For thirty years, Ron Carlson has joked about writing one poem a year, and to look for his book of them in 2012. The joke came true: Room Service: Poems, Meditations, Outcries and Remarks is a genre-bending collection of traditional verse, prose poetry, microfiction, and--why not?--a play or two, dancing easily from the lyrical to the surreal to the comical, capturing the long sweep of life s simple necessities and small triumphs. Brimming with Carlson s signature good humor, these pieces were written over many years in many places, and are unified, as befits a first book of poetry, by hope. Room Service reminds us why poetry is necessary, and will leave you wondering what took him so long.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597092339
• ISBN13: 9781597092333
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.5" x 9.0"