Some Church: Poems

by David Romvedt and David Romtvedt

"Equally at home with the silly and the sublime." --BILLINGS GAZETTE

In Some Church, David Romtvedt defines the intersection of a person's political, social, and spiritual life. Offering perspectives both intimate and expansive in nature, these poems are informed by Romtvedt's world--both the immediate, rural landscape of his home in Wyoming, and by sociopolitical forces outside his control. In a voice that ranges from ambling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571314229
• ISBN13: 9781571314222
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

An intimate collection themed with controversial works of political, social, and spiritual poetry

Some Church by David Romtvedt (Poet Laureate of Wyoming) is an intimate collection themed with controversial works of political, social, and spiritual poetry with an insightful and encouraging style that strikes an echoing chord similar to many great writers and poet before him. Science: The Country's full of flies. I hang a bag of pesticide/from a tree so that the cows can walk back and forth and rub.//There is a glacier in the mountains above town,/fall and tumble, but every year the ice recedes.//Some laugh to see slugs copulate, hanging by threads from trees./Others say this is not so much funny as perverse.//The honeybee's enemies nestle in her hair. Hungry,/they tickle her mouth. She feeds them sweet nectar.//Angels, pictured as both male and female, engage in neither/photosynthesis nor heterotrophic acts, and reproduce asexually.//There is no magnetic that at the distance of the moon/its attractive power would rearrange the molecules in our bodies.//Archaeologists believe that certain delicate phials/found in Roman ruins were meant to hold tears.