Poetry. "[Elizabeth Robinson's] is a piety that refuses name, as her poetry defies easy categorization: 'This is what poetry says: faith is uneasy, an erotic uncertainty. Poetry makes faith out of willed attention. The word is its own commitment, willful for its own sake...' HARROW is a beautiful book"—Claudia Keelan. "Hers is a poetry of desire in the most complex sense, 'a desire created by seeing and impiety.' Both poetry and faith are 'uneasy,' and that is exactly the excitement of their pursuit. In Elizabeth Robinson's wonderfully subtle collection, Jameson's baleful 'prison house of language' is replaced by Bakhtin's 'treasure house of language,' I could not admire it more"—Paul Hoover.

Author City: Boulder, CO USA

Elizabeth Robinson is the author of several books of poetry, including THREE NOVELS (Omnidawn, 2011), ALSO KNOW AS (Apogee Press, 2009), THE ORPHAN & ITS RELATIONS (Fence Books, 2008), INAUDIBLE TRUMPETERS (Harbor Mountain Press, 2008), UNDER THAT SILKY ROOF (Burning Deck Press, 2006), and APPREHEND, the 2003 winner of the Fence Modern Poets Prize. She was educated at Bard College, Brown University, and Pacific School of Religion. Robinson has been a winner of the National Poetry Series and is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, 2008 Grants to Artists Award. She lives in Boulder, Colorado, and teaches at Naropa University.

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