cadabra (Carnegie Mellon Poetry) - Tapa blanda

[These] poems swift, judicious, perpetually alert chart the marvelous vantages within daily particulars, cusps, close listening. A master of quickened lulls ( in pursuit / of paradise I m still, he writes, and I feel the wild, stunned presence of eternity-in-an-afternoon), Rosenberg is among poetry s most attentive naturalists of the instant. Zach Savich"

"[These] poems--swift, judicious, perpetually alert--chart the marvelous vantages within daily particulars, cusps, close listening. A master of quickened lulls ('in pursuit / of paradise I'm still, ' he writes, and I feel the wild, stunned presence of eternity-in-an-afternoon), Rosenberg is among poetry's most attentive naturalists of the instant."--Zach Savich (1/1/2014 12:00:00 AM)

In this striking collection, the world is offered up in miniature, each poem torqued with the energy of doves trapped in a top hat. With these snapshot poems, Rosenberg reminds us that to face the beloved is to disappear. The taut lyrics of this book suggest a self-interrogation that is at the same time an investigation into our culture at large.