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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 Saje, author of Bend and Red Under the Skin

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Publié par	University of Akron Press
Date de parution	07 février 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781937378646
Langue	English

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Prop Rockery
AKRON SERIES IN POETRY
AKRON SERIES IN POETRY
Mary Biddinger, Editor
Emily Rosko, Prop Rockery
Alison Pelegrin, Hurricane Party
Matthew Guenette, American Busboy
Joshua Harmon, Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie
David Dodd Lee, Orphan, Indiana
Sarah Perrier, Nothing Fatal
Oliver de la Paz, Requiem for the Orchard
Rachel Dilworth, The Wild Rose Asylum
John Minczeski, A Letter to Serafin
John Gallaher, Map of the Folded World
Heather Derr-Smith, The Bride Minaret
William Greenway, Everywhere at Once
Brian Brodeur, Other Latitudes
Jeff Gundy, Spoken among the Trees
Alison Pelegrin, Big Muddy River of Stars
Roger Mitchell, Half/Mask
Ashley Capps, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields
Beckian Fritz Goldberg, The Book of Accident
Clare Rossini, Lingo
Vern Rutsala, How We Spent Our Time
Kurt Brown, Meg Kearney, Donna Reis, Estha Weiner, eds.,
Blues for Bill: A Tribute to William Matthews
Sharmila Voorakkara, Fire Wheel
Dennis Hinrichsen, Cage of Water
Lynn Powell, The Zones of Paradise
Titles published since 2003.
For a complete listing of titles published in the series, go to www.uakron.edu/uapress/poetry
Prop Rockery
Emily Rosko

Copyright © 2012 by Emily Rosko
All rights reserved • First Edition 2012 • Manufactured in the United States of America. All inquiries and permission requests should be addressed to the Publisher, the University of Akron Press, Akron, Ohio 44325–1703.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Rosko, Emily, 1979–
Prop rockery / Emily Rosko. — 1st ed.
p. cm. — (Akron series in poetry)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-937378-15-8 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-937378-16-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)
I. Title.
PS 3618.084425p76 2012
811’.6—dc23
2011050857
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI / NISO Z 39.48–1992 (Permanence of Paper). ∞
Cover: C’mere Little , by Aggie Zed, pastels & ink, copyright © 2011. Used with permission. Cover design: Amy Freels
Prop Rockery was designed and typeset in Dante and printed on sixty-pound natural and bound by BookMasters of Ashland, Ohio.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
[I]
Prop Rockery
[In thy dumb action will I be as perfect]
[All with me’s meet that I can fashion fit]
And So It Was Done Riding the Horse Backward
Troupe Song
[Like boys unto a muss kings would start forth]
[Time and the hour runs through the roughest day]
[So that they seeme, and covet not to be]
[II]
[Accoutred as I was I plungèd in]
Jib Riddle
Tract Song
Mare’s Nest
[The world is deceived with ornament]
Bell, Book, and Candle
[The lady stirs]
The Suit, a Letter
Rose
Superstition
[III]
Siren Song
A Tundra of Misapplications
[The nature of bad news infects the teller]
Timbered
To Pasture
Dispatch: At a Limp, Not at a Gallop
Stuffed and Strung Up for the Birds
[How easy is a bush supposed a bear]
Aubade
Cloudland
Stock, Still
[IV]
[If they would yield us but the superfluity while it were wholesome]
Monarchy
[Yet let me have the substance rough, not the shadow]
Solar Complaint
Lunar Complaint
[Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight]
King of the Boars
Two-Bit Song
[But yet I run before my horse to market]
[As I have done the rest of my misleaders]
[V]
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Albatross
Accumulation Song
A Final Procession for the Pattern Maker
The Songless Ha-Ha
[I was not made a horse]
[I can drink with any tinker]
[The juggler casteth a mist to work the closer]
Ballad of the Face in the Rock
[Let me be thought too busy in my fears]
Finale
Notes
Acknowledgments
Sincere thanks to the editors of the literary journals where many of these poems first appeared: Agni , Barn Owl Review , The Beloit Poetry Journal , The Cincinnati Review , Crazyhorse , Cutbank , The Denver Quarterly , Diode , Front Porch , Hubbub , The Laurel Review , Pank Magazine , Pleiades , Redivider , The Rumpus , Shenandoah , and Verse Daily .
This book was shaped and informed by many, and I would like to thank my colleagues at Cornell University and the College of Charleston and my advisors at the University of Missouri: Scott Cairns, William Kerwin, Raymond Marks, David Read, and especially Lynne McMahon and Sherod Santos for their steadfast support. For their continued friendships, old and new, my gratitude goes to Alice Fulton, Phyllis Janowitz, Nina Liu, and Aggie Zed.
Highest thanks to Mary Biddinger, Amy Freels, John Gallaher, and the University of Akron Press. Thank you, Natasha Sajé. Finally, without my family and Anton, I would have no song to sing.
Prologue
Where does this start?
Earth underground, the root-veined loam .
What’s the scene?
Any square or expanse .
What do we do?
Conglomerate, calcify, cave in .
How did it come to this?
The syllables found us rounded .
What’s the petition to say?
We’re for more jag . Less court .
And if there’s no answer?
Off to the bigwigs .
How will the king be known?
By the worms and fleas .
What’s the flip-side of the sun?
A Caesar-crowned ass, the zero, the melt .
What can be said for us?
We’re slow. We’re permanent .
When’s the players’ cue?
When the goat song kicks in .
How does the song go?
Better a bucket for the ham, a stool for the scrub… .
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