The SILENT SINGER(1st Edition) NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (Illinois Poetry Series) by LenRoberts Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2001 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-06952-9, ISBN: 0-252-06952-8
"her knees, the silver cross on her chest thumping while she shouted, This is what
happens to sinners, stumbling her way back to the front of the class where she
wrote The Way of the Cross with red chalk, told us we must lift our crosses up, up,
..."
The Disappearing Trick(1st Edition) (Illinois Poetry Series) by LenRoberts Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-07374-8, ISBN: 0-252-07374-6
"In The Disappearing Trick, Len Roberts wrestles with the loss of loved ones - whether that loss be through death, a son moving away to college, or simply how people fade from our lives and memories. Hybrids of the narrative and lyric form, these poems are models of indirect statement that have, as Sharon Olds has said, emotional courage, powerful music, and a deep balance. Like the light shining on a face, or a girl's thigh back in a si ..."
"Sándor Csoóri, Len Roberts. About the Translator Len Roberts is the author of
four books of poetry, the last of which, Black Wings, was selected for the National
Poetry Series in 1989. His fifth collection, Dangerous Angels, will be published by
..."
The Disappearing Trick(1st Edition) by LenRoberts Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-03128-1, ISBN: 0-252-03128-8
"... The Broken World Marcus Cafagña (1996) Selected by Yusef Komunyakaa Nine Skies A. V. Christie (1997) Selected by ... Ai Renunciation Corey Marks ( 2000) Selected by Philip Levine Manderley Rebecca Wolff (2001) Selected by Robert ..."
"These poems, written between 1985 and 1994, record what Sandor Csoori has called "the chronic memory of violence," namely the horrors of World War II and the repressions of the ensuing forty-five year Communist occupation. Several of the poems written after 1989, the year Communism collapsed in Hungary, cast a cold eye on the state of Hungary as a free nation. Sandor Csoori, one of Hungary's most prominent and outspoken poets, is the ..."
The Trouble-Making Finch(1st Edition) POEMS (Illinois Poetry) by LenRoberts Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-06693-1, ISBN: 0-252-06693-6
"Gerald Stei "There is always in [Roberts'! poems a gentle sensibility, a probing
intelligence and an acute attcntivencss to what is urgent in our lives that tempers
the poems, and that situates them in that precious space between poet and readc
which is our common bond and common exaltation." - C. K. Williams "Len
Roberts is a poet of unwavering truthfulness and unwavering mercy — somehow
the mercy always equal to th truth." — Shar ..."
The Disappearing Trick by LenRoberts 112 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-09227-5, ISBN: 0-252-09227-9
"Hummers, Knucklers, and Slow Curves: Contemporary Baseball Poems Edited
by Don/ohnson (1991) The Double Reckoning of Christopher Columbus Barbara
Helfgott Hyett (1992) Selected Poems jean Garrigue (1992) New and Selected ..."
To Write a Poem by LenRoberts Hardcover, 209 Pages, Published 2004 by Joshua Pr. ISBN-13: 978-0-9725964-0-4, ISBN: 0-9725964-0-2
"This volume, is the result of Dr. Robert's thirty years of teaching poetry in the schools to students of all ages, ranging from kindergarten to published poets."
The Silent Singer New and Selected Poems (Illinois Poetry Series) by LenRoberts Hardcover, 166 Pages, Published 2001 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-02639-3, ISBN: 0-252-02639-X
"... Women's Poetry on Breast Cancer Edited by Leatrice Lifshitz (1988) Days from
a Dream Almanac Dennis Tedlock (1990) Working Classics: Poems on Industrial
Life Edited by Peter Oresick and Nicholas Coles (1990) Hummers, Knucklers, ..."
Learning about the heart Poems (Silverfish review) by LenRoberts 32 Pages, Published 1992 by Silverfish Review ISBN-13: 978-1-878851-03-1, ISBN: 1-878851-03-9
From the dark(1st Edition) poems by LenRoberts Paperback, 59 Pages, Published 1984 by State University Of New York Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87395-758-8, ISBN: 0-87395-758-X
"PARTISAN for Nikola Rudan On the old road that is supposed to lead to the sea,
the gray sky lights its way over the mountain. Three kilometers down the sea ..."
Before and After the Fall New Poems (Lannan Translations Selection Series) by Sandor Csoori, LenRoberts Hardcover, 125 Pages, Published 2004 by Boa Editions Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-929918-47-8, ISBN: 1-929918-47-X
"These poems record what Sándor Csoóri calls “the chronic memory of violence,” namely the horrors of World War II and the ensuing Communist occupation of Hungary. Several poems written after Communism collapsed cast a cold eye on the state of a free Hungary. Imbued with deft surrealistic strokes, Csoóri creates a stunningly symbolic and visionary voice that is unique in contemporary world poetry.Sándor Csoóri, one of Hungary’s most promi ..."
Counting the Black Angels(First Edition) POEMS (Illinois Poetry Series) by LenRoberts Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 1994 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-06381-7, ISBN: 0-252-06381-3
"Poems Len Roberts. POETRY. Counting. the. Black. Angels. POEMS BY. Len.
Roberts. "Len Roberts is a poet of unwavering truthfulness and unwavering
mercy," commented Sharon Olds about Black Wings, a 1988 National Poetry
Series selection. Counting (lie Black Angels, Roberts 's eighth book of poetry, ...
Gerald Stern "Roberts 's new work is among the most intelligent, moving, and
expressive poetry now being written." — Hayden Carruth " ..."