Description
Poetry. This collection of poems by Elizabeth Robinson circles around and around the place of the individual in relation to an other or Other or others. If human experience is nested in relation, "the braid of bodies that engendered this self," it is also disrupted by "an intimacy that can disassemble and recreate itself" until an uneasy form of empathy emerges from the radical isolation of human introspection: "I would be you, the self at a loss. The invisible hand that rests onthe shoulder/of its own body, guiding it. We do not know what comfort is." Using prose poems to suggest the narrative logic of the story, THE ORPHAN AND ITS RELATIONS takes references from domestic life, myth and folktales, and artworks "to bridge," as Robert Creeley said elsewhere of Robinson's work, "between the physically given world and that other we gloss with words, yet apprehend insistently as the defining presence of our lives themselves."
Author Bio
Elizabeth Robinson is the author of several collections of poetry, including the Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist ON GHOSTS (Solid Objects, 2013). She has been a winner of the National Poetry Series and the Fence Modern Poets Prize and has received grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Fund for Poetry. Recently, Robinson has received Editors' Choice Awards from New Letters and Scoundrel Time and was also awarded a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Pinole, California with her husband, the poet Randy Prunty.
Author City: PINOLE, CA USA