Sure Thing - Softcover

Brox, Robin F.

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ISBN 10: 1609640179 ISBN 13: 9781609640170

Publisher: Blazevox Books, 2011

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Poetry. "There is a kind of abstraction, based not on reductive form, nor on self-expressive mark making but on the endless variation of form, colour and shifting scale in the natural world. In this vigorous, detailed and abstracted poetry the most traditional matter: season, climate, weather, plants, is specified as human bodies move and make their lives in post-industrial landscapes that nature has recolonized. Focused on physical changes in state and their environmental and metabolic outcomes, these serial poems and binary arrays have a fierce grip on the complexity of our experience"—Tony Lopez. "Like the images in this thoughtful debut, Brox's poems chart our attraction to surfaces, textures, and weathers with a calm hand intent on recording the "tenderest ambivalences" of our desires and senses"—Jennifer Moxley.

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About the Author

Robin F. Brox was born in 1978. Sure Thing is her first full- length book of poems; it contains references to Alice Notley, the NHL, Rainer Maria Rilke, television's The Simpsons, the Bay of Fundy, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Emily Dickinson, Coogan's Bluff, Walt Whitman, and others. A poet and teaching artist, she is the founder of Saucebox, a small press and occasional performance series devoted to women artists. She has degrees from SUNY- Buffalo and the University of Maine-Orono. Brox's poems have been or will be published in Foursquare, Stolen Island Review, name, Artvoice, Hemlock, Nickel City Nights, drill, The Buffalo News, and others; chapbooks include Who's That Girl (1999), Word/Body (2000, includes color reproduction of paintings by the author), Saucebox: an anthology of women writers (2003), ache (2003), Tinsel Strength (2005), 's words (2008), and from A.) Concoct Key Gush Run (2011).