First Things When by Robert Rehder
Includes poems which inhabit the invented, rootless places that modern society creates: supermarkets, airports and parking garages; the illusory communities of celebrity and the digital universe.
His wit has a forensic edge: he is always intelligent but shatters common expectationA.. The impression the reader gets is of an intellectual but domestic incandescenceA... There is no substitute for reading Rehder over and over again - the poems are too clear to be understood at once. And they shine too brightly. Peter PorterHis are chiseled, wonderfully crafted lyrics that infuse the most mundane of incidents with resonance. Rehder contemplates the splendors and miseries of everyday life with an eye to foibles and absurdities, including our own. Marjorie Perloff
ROBERT REHDER's books include Wordsworth and the Beginnings of Modern Poetry (1981), The Poetry of Wallace Stevens (1988), Stevens, Williams, Crane and the Motive for Metaphor (2004), and he has edited A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke (1999). His first books of poems was The Compromises Will Be Different (1995). He holds the chair of English and American Literature at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781857549096 |
| ISBN 10 | 1857549090 |
| Title | First Things When |
| Author | Robert Rehder |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2009-01-28 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
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