Romey's Order

by Atsuro Riley

Book Overview

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,"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226719448
• ISBN13: 9780226719443
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 9.2"