false 146616 0 0 666137 0972348778 9780972348775 8 <![CDATA[A Green Light]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176927318m/666137.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176927318s/666137.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/666137.A_Green_Light 4.11 84 Matthew Rohrer's simple, hilarious, generous and strangely disquieting poems conjure versions of the most familiar aspects of our lives-friendship, marriage, childhood, work-into which intrude incongruous, peculiar, fantastical, yet somehow totally recognizable elements. Over and over these poems leave us convinced that we've learned something very important and mysterious, yet we can't say exactly what.

]]> 146616 4.16 311 34 2004 666135 1933517182 9781933517186 11 <![CDATA[Rise Up]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176927317m/666135.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176927317s/666135.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/666135.Rise_Up 4.23 71 "Equal parts punk rock and pastoral, [Rohrer has] a voice that seems unearthly in its ability to be detached and simultaneously tender."-American Poet

Approaching pleasure and terror with the same searching and determined curiosity, Rise Up traverses political, natural, and domestic landscapes with gentle agility. Beautifully crafted surfaces give way to sincere depth.

Matthew Rohrer is the author of four poetry collections, including A Green Light (2004, shortlisted for the Griffin Prize), Satellite, and A Hummock in the Malookas. He has appeared on NPR's All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing.

]]> 146616 4.16 311 34 2007 666136 0970367236 9780970367235 8 <![CDATA[Satellite]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176927317m/666136.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176927317s/666136.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/666136.Satellite 4.15 68 In this follow-up collection to the National Poetry Series winner A Hummock in the Malookas, Rohrer's poems play against convention, finding dark, surreal underpinnings in the seemingly innocent objects and experiences of everyday life. Direct, humorous and disquieting, Satellite further develops the unique sensibility of an important young poet.

]]> 146616 4.16 311 34 2001 807619 0393315487 9780393315486 2 <![CDATA[A Hummock in the Malookas: Poems (National Poetry Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178570912m/807619.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178570912s/807619.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/807619.A_Hummock_in_the_Malookas_Poems 4.18 57 146616 4.16 311 34 1991 5055083 2 <![CDATA[They All Seemed Asleep]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223925033m/5055083.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223925033s/5055083.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5055083.They_All_Seemed_Asleep 4.15 13 146616 4.16 311 34 2008 6225768 1933996129 9781933996127 2 <![CDATA[There's the Hand and There's the Arid Chair]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235104837m/6225768.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235104837s/6225768.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6225768.There_s_the_Hand_and_There_s_the_Arid_Chair 4.38 8 165783 4.35 310 43 124460 4.12 67 5 149363 4.17 40 5 146617 4.11 495 56 2833580 4.38 8 2 168122 3.69 39 4 146616 4.16 311 34 90713 4.20 130 6 123271 4.45 151 7 555371 3.47 19 2 2009 285454 0972348786 9780972348782 0 <![CDATA[Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173412981m/285454.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173412981s/285454.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/285454.Adventures_While_Preaching_the_Gospel_of_Beauty 3.67 6 After their Fall 2002 whirlwind tour supporting their book of collaborative poems, Nice Hat. Thanks, these acclaimed poets return with a collection of the finest new poems created live as they rambled high and low. Covering such topics as hillbillies, baseball, capitalism, paradise, fruit, spy satellites, and more, the CD is an uproarious and continually surprising audio record of two vivid imaginations working overtime for audiences in no less than 19 states.

]]> 146617 4.11 495 56 146616 4.16 311 34 2003 6648834 1933254556 9781933254555 0 <![CDATA[A Plate of Chicken]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6648834-a-plate-of-chicken 4.00 1 146616 4.16 311 34 2009