Good Beast by Andrew Michael Roberts

by Andrew Michael Roberts

Poetry. GOOD BEAST terrifies, its poems possess air-like clarity. They are vast and mostly invisible. Roberts turns away from narrative in search of the moment and the emotion, which he has the ability to view through a microscope or telescope, and then the audacity to show us a world gentle but with distance, close and intimate, and at times stuck in an emotional apogee.

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

First published May 1, 2015

About the author

Andrew Robin is the author of the poetry collections Good Beast (Burnside Review Books), Something has to happen next (University of Iowa Press), Dear Wild Abandon, (Poetry Society of America), and Give Up (Tarpaulin Sky Press), all under his former name, Andrew Michael Roberts. A new book, Stray Birds, is forthcoming from Kelson Books. He is the recipient of the Iowa Poetry Prize, a Poetry Society of America National Chapbook Fellowship, and a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He lives with his wife Sarah on Lopez Island in Washington State.