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Naming Names
Copyright © 2001
by Robert King
Palanquin Press
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These poems burst their boundaries up and down and margin outwards
towards the still untamed infinity of words, work their coordinates through
restless references and indexes always towards a greater shifting irony
that bends and warps like bodies in a fun house mirror.
No discipline measured in either language or numbers escapes his
testing, no starting point so commonplace its mystery and strangeness
does not taunt him and tease us.
What results is the naming of Naming Names,
part Adam's assertion of
the world, part ncecessary price of admission to the numinous carnival of
plenitude which is our lives.
Always somehow, through it all, Bob retains his fresh-faced
enthusiasm and his wry good humor. — Greg Kuzma
I love the freedoms Bob calls on in the longer poems, and the fact
that he's taken the poems on, to spin their stories out as if they carried
knots that tightened and then slipped free. — Jay Meek
What a funny, intelligent poet King is! I admire his serious sense
of play. — Twyla Hansen
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Rodin & Co
Copyright © 2011
by Robert King
Grayson Books
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These pages sing the details of Auguste Rodin’s life and work with yearning and truth…These poems’ ways of breaking down objects and events are as
clear and accurate as Rodin’s own work. In fact, that’s the best compliment I could give Rodin & Company —
the book bears the weight of Rodin’s great life and works and carries them even farther into our hearts. — Jack Bedell
An unfolding discovery, done over time with great care and insight. Robert King unites poetic craft, traditional and organic form, and vision as
well as anyone writing today. — Jared Smith
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