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Something Has to Happen Next (Iowa Poetry Prize)

by Andrew Mich Roberts

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Publisher Comments:

The poems in Something Has to Happen Next, if given the chance, might peer down inquisitively from a great height; they speak of quietness, namelessness, the reachlessness of love, the fortune of animals and their silence, apocalypse, abandonment, beginnings, and endings.

Working with brevity and compression, Andrew Michael Roberts first imagines how small he can go with a poem and still maintain some sort of emotional or imagistic center. Then, released from this limitation, the rest of his playful, unexpected poems expand to fill a world with imagery, emotion, and sound.

What Roberts calls "simply a book of small poems" grew out of his obsessions with time and catastrophe and love and abandonment — what is always possible, almost attained, but lost at the last minute. When something ends or when everything ends, something else must always happen next — what will it be, and who will be there to name and love and destroy it?

Review:

"Unafraid to be quick, playful, and wise, Something Has to Happen Next is a frankly pleasurable collection. It dares us all to try its succinct propositions, to exercise imagination's right to speculate, to think and feel in poetry's precincts. It is a beautiful, generously realized book." Dara Wier, author, Reverse Rapture and Remnants of Hannah

Review:

"Concise, always surprising, these poems take you on journeys into other worlds. They break icicles from your eyes, and say, 'look at me, you've never seen me before.'" James Tate, author, The Ghost Soldiers
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About the Author

Andrew Michael Roberts is the author of Dear Wild Abandon, selected for a 2007 PSA National Chapbook Award, and Give Up. His poems can be found in journals such as Tin House, Iowa Review, LIT, Colorado Review, and Gulf Coast.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781587297946
Author:
Roberts, Andrew Mich
Publisher:
University of Iowa Press
Author:
Roberts, Andrew Michael
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
Single Author / American
Subject:
Poetry-A to Z
Copyright:
2009
Edition Description:
1
Series:
Iowa Poetry Prize
Publication Date:
20090331
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
68
Dimensions:
8.30x5.40x.30 in. .25 lbs.
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"Review" by , "Unafraid to be quick, playful, and wise, Something Has to Happen Next is a frankly pleasurable collection. It dares us all to try its succinct propositions, to exercise imagination's right to speculate, to think and feel in poetry's precincts. It is a beautiful, generously realized book."
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