Synopses & Reviews
The World's Room is a dynamic first collection in which the literary and the personal, the elevated and the slangy, the sacred and the profane are beautifully intertwined. From nursery rhymes to riddles to prose poems, Joshua Weiner's work displays boundless imaginative and linguistic possibilities.
About the Author
Joshua Weiner was a 2000 Witter Bynner Fellow at the Library of Congress. He teaches at Northwestern University and serves on the Writing Committee at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Psalm
The Yonder Tree
Overlooking Berkeley
The Dog State
Art Pepper
Island
The Not-Yet Child
Lines to Stitch Inside a Child's Pocket
The World's Room
Nursery Rhyme
Plot
Market Day
Who They Were
Mongrel Death Blues
The Visitation
Epitaph
The Knife
Riddle Book to the City
Connecting Flight
Tempest
Oakland
Kindertotenlieder
Bruno's Night