Research Catalog

Title

Surrounded by friends / Matthew Rohrer.

Author

Rohrer, Matthew

Publication

• Seattle ; New York : Wave Books, 2015.
• Minneapolis, Minnesota : Consortium Book Sales and Distribution.
• ©2015.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Clark, Jeff, 1971-
• Wave Books, publisher.
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

96 pages; 21 cm

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Wave Books 047

Uniform Title

• Wave Books ; 047.
• Woodberry Poetry Room Blue Star collection of books and manuscripts.

Subject

American poetry

Genre/Form

American poetry – 21st century.

Note

• Poems.
• Designed and composed by Quemadura [Jeff Clark].

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1 : Bicyclette Batavus, fabriqué en Hollande, ca. 1904 -- Sudden summer -- A little rain -- There is absolutely nothing lonelier -- Le machine ate himself -- A pair of ducks -- Brooklyn is covered in little pieces of paper -- The world's most famous painting -- The photographs of Allen Ginsburg at the Grey Gallery, NYC -- Where I lived -- The garden of bees -- In the ancient tapestries -- Autumn glory -- How to live -- The ants -- Birthday sonnet -- Pavilion of leaves -- The model farm is therapeutic -- A little sign -- Now that shirt is bittersweet -- There is a flower -- Hank's saloon -- Fuck the banks -- Poem for Edna St. Vincent Millay ; 2 : Crossing underneath the water -- Mother's day -- Bus pass -- Anemometer -- Bull shark -- And now kids! -- Dark inside, bright outside, a Magritte -- A perfume -- She stepped outside -- Dulcimer and flute (while Syria destroys itself) -- Across the country hurry home -- Bad weather plan #4 -- Poem for my sister -- He has a job, but it's a sad job -- In the park -- Poem -- Shaman from Thailand -- At Dante's house -- Two poems for Issa -- The meditations of Marcus Aurelius -- Magnolia petals falling on bricks -- Hello mermen -- Homage to Attila József -- Volkswagen rabbit -- Poem for Virgil Bănescu ; 3 : Poem written with Buson -- Poem written with Bashō -- Poem written with Bashō -- Poem written with Buson -- Poem written with Bashō -- Poem written with Issa -- Poem written with Issa -- Poem written with Issa -- Poem written with Issa -- Poem written with Bashō -- Poem written with Buson -- Poem written with Bashō -- Poem written with Issa -- Poem written with Bashō ; 4 : Translation from Hafiz -- The emperor.

OCLC

• 883510438
• SCSB-11621902

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library