Prop Rockery

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
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Author: Emily Rosko ISBN: 9781937378646
Publisher: University of Akron Press Publication: February 7, 2012
Imprint: University of Akron Press Language: English
Author: Emily Rosko
ISBN: 9781937378646
Publisher: University of Akron Press
Publication: February 7, 2012
Imprint: University of Akron Press
Language: English

Art is about something the way a cat is about the house," says Allen Grossman. This is abundantly true of Emily Rosko's poems in Prop Rockery, a condition she defines with a quote from King Lear: "a looped and windowed raggedness." And while this condition is "pretend," and these poems are indeed virtuoso performances, the despair, loneliness, lies, and miscommunication they examine are as real as anything in art. Parataxis and fragments meet rhyme and chewy-on-the-tongue Anglo Saxon diction at the axis of postmodern irony. Prop Rockery explodes in your mouth-no sugar, plenty of bite.-Natasha Sajé, author of Bend and Red Under the Skin

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Art is about something the way a cat is about the house," says Allen Grossman. This is abundantly true of Emily Rosko's poems in Prop Rockery, a condition she defines with a quote from King Lear: "a looped and windowed raggedness." And while this condition is "pretend," and these poems are indeed virtuoso performances, the despair, loneliness, lies, and miscommunication they examine are as real as anything in art. Parataxis and fragments meet rhyme and chewy-on-the-tongue Anglo Saxon diction at the axis of postmodern irony. Prop Rockery explodes in your mouth-no sugar, plenty of bite.-Natasha Sajé, author of Bend and Red Under the Skin

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