On his own at sixteen after being raised by an alcoholic father and an abusive mother, Len Roberts is best known for poems of stark imagery that concentrate on his progress in life and how he has come to an acceptance of life's flux.
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Acupuncture And Cleansing At Forty-eight
All Day Cutting Wood, Thinking
And Where Were You
Angels In The Experimental Catechism/math Class
Anointing Her Five Senses
Any Place, Any Time
The Blacktop Act
The Burning Hours
Burning The Angels
Climbing The Three Hills In Search Of The Best Christmas Tre
Contemplating Again The Jade Chrysanthemum; Or, Why The
Correcting The Lisp
Doing The Laundry
Double Yolk
Elmer
The Equation
The Flying Monk In Flames
God's Blessing
Ice Man, 1931
In Cursive
In The Mind Of God
Knots
Last Night, Between Dusk And
The Long Ride Home
Mission. Late March, 1960
My Son Won't Stop Making
Nailing In New Braces
Noon, Wednesday In Wassergass
Obedient
Planting Damascus Firs
Rain Wash
The Rare Coin
Ripping Slate Off The Barn Roof
The Saints Always
She Returns For The Last Putting On Of Oil
A Shoe In The Road, Autumn's
Silence On The Day My Fathr Was Carried Away
Sister Ann Zita Shows Us Foolishness Of Forbidden Books
Snapper, Wassergass
The Stone
Taking Inventory As She Weeds
Tapping In The Seed
Terrible Angels
Thin Pages
Thinning The Walnuts
The Trouble-making Finch
We Were Insects And Animals
What Kind Of Man
Working Blacktop, 1963
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Acupuncture And Cleansing At Forty-eight
All Day Cutting Wood, Thinking
And Where Were You
Angels In The Experimental Catechism/math Class
Anointing Her Five Senses
Any Place, Any Time
The Blacktop Act
The Burning Hours
Burning The Angels
Climbing The Three Hills In Search Of The Best Christmas Tre
Contemplating Again The Jade Chrysanthemum; Or, Why The
Correcting The Lisp
Doing The Laundry
Double Yolk
Elmer
The Equation
The Flying Monk In Flames
God's Blessing
Ice Man, 1931
In Cursive
In The Mind Of God
Knots
Last Night, Between Dusk And
The Long Ride Home
Mission. Late March, 1960
My Son Won't Stop Making
Nailing In New Braces
Noon, Wednesday In Wassergass
Obedient
Planting Damascus Firs
Rain Wash
The Rare Coin
Ripping Slate Off The Barn Roof
The Saints Always
She Returns For The Last Putting On Of Oil
A Shoe In The Road, Autumn's
Silence On The Day My Fathr Was Carried Away
Sister Ann Zita Shows Us Foolishness Of Forbidden Books
Snapper, Wassergass
The Stone
Taking Inventory As She Weeds
Tapping In The Seed
Terrible Angels
Thin Pages
Thinning The Walnuts
The Trouble-making Finch
We Were Insects And Animals
What Kind Of Man
Working Blacktop, 1963
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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This review is from: The Trouble-Making Finch: POEMS (Illinois Poetry) (Paperback)
The poetry of Len Roberts blams your gut with its wrenching honesty, lapidary orderliness, and reverberating realism. He takes the emotional fallout from childhood to maturity and compresses it into ingots of radioactively radiating musical magic. He bears rereading. He bares the unbearable and makes it sing.Roberts knows how to listen to language. He allows imagery to unravel truth amid the flak and detritus of ordinary existence. He symphonizes despair; he sacralizes the profane. He is accessible, energizing, unforgettable. Worth a look!
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