Poetry. Michael Ruby's poems are an intersection of the various possibilities of poetry and language. Many artistic movements echo through these pages-surrealism, constructivism, expressionism, confessional poetry, language poetry, even I Crepuscolari and the Prairie School. There are elegies for the early dead, texts to accompany artworks, investigations of meaning and parts of speech. There are transcriptions of inner voices and of the ordinary flow of thoughts and road signs on a night drive. These vivid poems take place on "5th Ave. and Carroll St. in Brooklyn" and "in one of Lithuania's doomed shetls," but also where a dog might play "Schoenberg in the silver and black plazas, balancing the Santa Maria, the Mayflower and the first slave ship on this head."

Author City: BROOKLYN, NY USA

Michael Ruby is a poet and journalist, living in Brooklyn. He is the author of many books of poetry, including AT AN INTERSECTION (Alef Books, 2002), WINDOW ON THE CITY (BlazeVOX [books], 2006), The Edge of the Underworld (BlazeVOX [books], 2010), Compulsive Words (BlazeVOX [books], 2010), The Star-Spangled Banner (Dusie, 2011) and MEMORIES, DREAMS, AND INNER VOICES (Station Hill Press of Barrytown, 2012). He is also the editor of Washtenaw County Jail and Other Writings (Xlibris, 2005). A graduate of Harvard College and Brown University's writing program, he works as an editor of U.S. news and political articles at The Wall Street Journal.