“Equal parts punk rock and pastoral, [Rohrer has] a voice that seems unearthly in its ability to be detached and simultaneously tender.”—American PoetApproaching pleasure and terror with the same sear
A gripping, eerie, and hilarious novel-in-verse from poet Matthew Rohrer. In a Russian-doll of fictional episodes, we follow a midlevel publishing assistant over the course of a day as he encounters g
A gripping, eerie, and hilarious novel-in-verse from poet Matthew Rohrer. In a Russian-doll of fictional episodes, we follow a midlevel publishing assistant over the course of a day as he encounters g
"Rohrer's frequently beautiful, brief poems are rooted in specific images that initially seem unrelatedbut which ultimately form a unity as meditations on how the ordinary distractions of eve
"Rohrer's frequently beautiful, brief poems are rooted in specific images that initially seem unrelatedbut which ultimately form a unity as meditations on how the ordinary distractions of eve
Matthew Rohrer’s simple, hilarious, generous and strangely disquieting poems conjure versions of the most familiar aspects of our lives—friendship, marriage, childhood, work—into which intrude incong