Poetry. "Beth Roberts' poems are en route and restless, glimpsing, as they do, what it is the century requires. Such glimpses take hard work with a steadying lens and the willingness to stop abruptly, to implicate oneself in the brief, severe clarity that a lens frames. Throughout her impressive first collection, Roberts' fights to keep the fine synaptical snap of perception alive amidst the world's relentless desire for a long attenuating history" - Lia Purpura.
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"Robert’s faith in the renovating powers of lyric tradition is as anxious as it is necessary." -- Mark Levine
"The panorama, depicted in several poems as coming from the inside of an automobile looking out, is dazzling, blurred ... cartoon-ish." -- Jacket #19-October 2002 Book Review by L.S. Klatt for Beth Roberts, Brief Moral History in Blue
"The panorama, depicted in several poems as coming from the inside of an automobile looking out, is dazzling, blurred ... cartoon-ish." -- Jacket #19-October 2002 Book Review by L.S. Klatt for Beth Roberts, Brief Moral History in Blue
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Beth Roberts was born in Chicago but spent most of her early years in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. She has received a BA in English from Western Michigan University and her MFA from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. Her poems have been published in Black Warrior Review, the Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, The Iowa Review, New England Review, and elsewhere. She an individual artist’s fellowship in 1999 from the Illinois Arts Council. Beth Roberts works as a freelance writer and lives in Illinois.
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This review is from: Brief Moral History in Blue (New Issues Poetry & Prose) (Paperback)
The poems are often very moving and can startle me into a new perspective. In all books of poetry worth re-reading over and over, each poem here has it's own personality and can be dipped into in many moods. I liked this book very much. p.s. the cover art is also gorgeous.
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