{"id":1839,"date":"2012-02-15T19:58:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T19:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/import-placeholder-for-122\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T12:49:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T17:49:28","slug":"prop-rockery","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/uapress\/product\/prop-rockery\/","title":{"rendered":"Prop Rockery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Winner of the 2011 Akron Poetry Prize<\/b><\/p>\n

“Art is about something the way a cat is about the house,\u201d says Allen Grossman. This is abundantly true of Emily Rosko\u2019s poems in\u00a0Prop Rockery<\/em>, a condition she defines with a quote from King Lear: \u201ca looped and windowed raggedness.\u201d And while this condition is \u201cpretend,\u201d and these poems are indeed virtuoso performances, the despair, loneliness, lies, and miscommunication they examine are as real as anything in art. Parataxis and fragments meet rhyme and chewy-on-the-tongue Anglo Saxon diction at the axis of postmodern irony. Prop Rockery explodes in your mouth-no sugar, plenty of bite.
\n\u2014Natasha Saj\u00e9, author of\u00a0Bend<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Red Under the Skin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Emily Rosko continues to deepen her lively and intelligent tour of the allusive and investigative imagination that she began in\u00a0Raw Goods Inventory<\/em>, to wonderful effect. Shakespeare is here, several times, as instigating muse, and where she takes this inspiration is a wild boat ride of language and image spanning much of the last 500 years. To this journey she brings a confidence that is up to the large task of holding these disparate threads together, leaving just enough space between them to dance. As she writes: \u201cI was shaken as salt. I was \/ as industrial as a drill. Oh pity-poor \/\/ fractured me, brain-way-sided, boring \/ through and through, full of ballas and glue.\u201d It\u2019s a lovely book, worthy of attention.
\n\u2014John Gallaher, author of\u00a0The Little Book of Guesses<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Map of the Folded World<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

About the author<\/h3>\n
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Emily Rosko<\/h4>\n

Emily Rosko is the author of two previous poetry collections:\u00a0Prop Rockery<\/em>, winner of the 2011 Akron Poetry Prize, and\u00a0Raw Goods Inventory<\/em>, winner of the 2005 Iowa Poetry Prize. She has been the recipient of the Stegner and Ruth Lilly fellowships. Editor of\u00a0A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line<\/em>\u00a0(University of Iowa Press, 2011), she also is the poetry editor for\u00a0Crazyhorse<\/em>.<\/em>\u00a0She is associate professor of English at the College of Charleston.<\/p>\n

Other books by Emily Rosko<\/h4>\n