Romey’s Order
Romey’s Order
Romey’s Order is an indelible sequence of poems voiced by an invented (and inventive) boy-speaker called Romey, set alongside a river in the South Carolina lowcountry.
As the word-furious eye and voice of these poems, Romey urgently records--and tries to order--the objects, inscape, injuries, and idiom of his "blood-home" and childhood world. Sounding out the nerves and nodes of language to transform "every burn-mark and blemish," to “bind our river-wrack and leavings," Romey seeks to forge finally (if even for a moment) a chord in which he might live. Intently visceral, aural, oral, Atsuro Riley’s poems bristle with musical and imaginative pleasures, with story-telling and picture-making of a new and wholly unexpected kind.
Reviews
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Flint-Chant
Picture
Turn
Strand
Object
Skin
Map
Drift-Raft
Tablet
Box
Nullaby
Story
Drill
Diorama
Filmstrip
Rage-Lodge
Skillet
Campground
Scroll
Bell
Fosterling-Song
Hutch
Roses
Clary
O
Chord
Notes
Awards
The Claremont Graduate School: Kate Tufts Discovery Award
Won
Lannan Foundation: Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry
Won
The Believer Magazine: The Believer Poetry Award
Won
Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation: Whiting Foundation Writer's Awards
Won
Library of Congress: Witter Bynner Award
Won
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