Shard - by Judith Roitman (Paperback)
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- In Judith Roitman's Shard, koan-like couplets stream through the open space of the page like moments in a day, by turns or all at once tragic and comic, vast and infinitesimal, mundane and surreal: They scooped out half your body.
- About the Author: Judith Roitman's poems have most recently appeared in The Rumpus, Sprung Formal, Otoliths, Human Repair Kit, and DReginald; most recent chapbooks are Provisional (Dancing Girl Press) and Boar King (Magnificent Field).
- 64 Pages
- Poetry, American
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In Judith Roitman's Shard, koan-like couplets stream through the open space of the page like moments in a day, by turns or all at once tragic and comic, vast and infinitesimal, mundane and surreal: They scooped out half your body. / Conglomerates stride the earth. As readers we may ride these moments into our own transient noticings: Oh God it's that bird again / hammering away against the tree. Savoring Roitman's nuanced repetitions and variations in syntax, case, tense, tone, and topic, we may ponder the movement of experience and thought into language: the sounding of words, making of marks, reading and rereading of marks in a process that multiplies meanings: Cows drop / against the knife. // Herons rise / from the fog. We may open toward the all-of-us making gestures, sounds, and marks to send back and forth amongst ourselves. In confusion and wonder, in love and rage, in terror, grief, and awe, with judgments and sometimes beyond them, we may find ourselves here, for now, participating. Bring me my crutches. / Feed me my silk. -- Sarah RosenthalAbout the Author
Judith Roitman's poems have most recently appeared in The Rumpus, Sprung Formal, Otoliths, Human Repair Kit, and DReginald; most recent chapbooks are Provisional (Dancing Girl Press) and Boar King (Magnificent Field). Books are No Face: New and Selected (First Intensity Press), Roswell (theenk Books), and Shard (forthcoming from Chax Press). She lives in Lawrence, KS.Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W)
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 64
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: American
Publisher: Chax Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Judith Roitman
Language: English
Street Date: July 1, 2025
TCIN: 1003697721
UPC: 9781946104595
Item Number (DPCI): 247-02-8880
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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