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In the singular landscape of Matthew Rohrer's first book of poems. Rohrer, a hip young poet whose first collection here has been selected as a 1994 National Poetry Series winner by Mary Oliver, offers a clue to his work by quoting for an epigraph the surrealist painter, Rene Magritte.

In the singular landscape of Matthew Rohrer's first book of poems. Rohrer's imagery is intensely visual, as in the opening lines of "news of the dead pope": "Out of a window musical notes float in single file/ past the windbreak of sage-colored trees. In Rohrer's landscape, the inanimate is conscious: dust from a snapped rug hangs angrily in the air; a radio weeps.

Matthew Rohrer (born 1970) is an American poet. His first book of poetry, A Hummock in the Malookas (1995), was selected by Mary Oliver for the 1994 National Poetry Series. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Rohrer was raised in Oklahoma. from the University of Michigan (where he won a Hopwood Award for poetry) and a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from the University of Iowa. In 2005, his collection A Green Light was shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize

Matthew Rohrer was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and raised in Oklahoma. His first collection, A Hummock in the Malookas (1995), was selected by Mary Oliver for the National Poetry Series.

Matthew Rohrer was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and raised in Oklahoma. He earned his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is the author of Satellite (2001), A Green Light (2004), Rise Up (2007), They All Seemed Asleep (2008), A Plate of Chicken (2009), Destroyer and Preserver (2011), and The Others (2017), winner of the Believer Book Award.

A Hummock in the Malookas book. Welcome to the singular landscape of Matthew Rohrer's first book of poems, a winner in the 1994 National Poetry Series. In the Malookas, just beyond the world we recognize, everythingfrom weather to food to household s its own reality. A violin in a pawnshop swears it will never laugh if a gun tells a joke; a broken telephone is relieved not to have to Welcome to the singular landscape of Matthew Rohrer's first book of poems, a winner in the 1994 National Poetry Series.

Born in 1970, Matthew Rohrer is the author of several poetry collections, including Surrounded by Friends (Wave Books, 2015), Rise Up (Wave Books, 2007), and A Hummock in the Malookas, which was selected by Mary Oliver for the 1994 National Poetry Series. Receive a new poem in your inbox daily.

74 pages ; 22 cm. In the Malookas, just beyond the world we recognize, everything - from weather to food to household appliances - experiences its own reality. A violin in a pawnshop swears it will never laugh if a gun tells a joke; a broken telephone is relieved not to have to transmit its owners' mundanities; and at precisely the wrong moment for two lovers in their car, a bridge crawls into town to get a drink

7 poems of Matthew Rohrer.

7 poems of Matthew Rohrer. Still I Rise, The Road Not Taken, If You Forget Me, Dreams, Annabel Lee. Matthew Rohrer (born 1970) is an American poet. In 2005, his collection A Green Light was shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize.

His first book of poetry, A Hummock in the Malookas (1995), was selected by Mary Oliver for the 1994 National Poetry Series. James Tate said of A Green Light, "There are poems in A Green Light that can break your heart with their unexpected twists and turns. You think you know where you are and then you don't and it is inexplicably sad. You experience some kind of emotion that you can't even name, but it's deep and real.