Pattern refuses to repeat itself = is divine

by Elizabeth Robinson

A poetic sequence by Elizabeth Robinson.

Unknown Binding

Published January 1, 2017

About the author

Elizabeth Robinson was educated at Bard College, Brown University, and Pacific School of Religion. She currently lives in Boulder, Colorado. With Colleen Lookingbill, she co-edits EtherDome Press. She co-edits Instance Press with Laura Sims and Beth Anderson.

Reviews

[Greg Bem · Rating 5 out of 5]

Asking myself, "What does it take to write a single book," and having the flood of girth, of a material depth, and holding this stereotype accountable. Reading Elizabeth Robinson's book, which is physically minimal but emotionally exquisite and sprawling. It is this type of intersection in the conversation that leads me to wonder about the arc and the grace of a poetry that is, especially in our digital present, here and now, ultimately huge. "Mottled humors release belief." This is just one of perhaps several dozen (total) lines in this book that breaks the *pattern* of the surge of the contemporary breath of poetry, a breath as robotic as invisibly undead. Robinson's life is curatorial. Her poetic vision is the concentration of the splinter, the release of the energy of focus. It is worth engaging, and understanding briefly, and longingly, into one's own perceptive strides of the meaning within fullness.