The Untested Hand

by Richard Robbins

Richard Robbins' The Untested Hand is the kind of book in which birds at a window feeder are seen as "changing all the indoor lives to sky." That is to say, this collection of poems investigates, celebrates, and practices transformation, particularly that of the quotidian into the marvelous, as if any day were the first. In "The Answering Machine," for example, the eponymous device, which a lesser poet would treat with smug jokiness, here serves to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0979393477
• ISBN13: 9780979393471
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Backwaters Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up