Results for "Sward, Robert"

From street-gang punk, to navy recruit, to rent-a-Santa, a collection of poems celebrating the possibilities of the individual.... Read More about Four Incarnations: New and Selected Poems 1959-1991

New and Selected Poems: 1957 - 2011 is culled from Robert Sward’s newest and best works, including both previously unpublished poems and selections from his 20+ books of poetry. It is the definitive Sward collection, exhibiting throughout his signature style: outwardly zany and fanciful, but inwardl... Read More about New & Selected Poems, 1957 - 2011

Blurbs: 51 Words There is an ocean inside Sward and he is constantly attempting to plumb its depths in search of intellectual, physical and spiritual meaning. All That I Have Not Made, Poems 1957-2020, is the definitive Sward collection, exhibiting throughout his signature style: outwardly zany and... Read More about All That I Have Not Made: Poems 1957 - 2020 (John B. Lee Signature)

""I like the wide sweep of it. There are many mysteries between father and son that people don't talk about.... The father figure comes through consistently, there's a lot of buoyancy, and the son is consistent and fine too."" (Robert Bly, author of "Iron John") Rosicrucian in the Basement is a boo... Read More about Rosicrucian in the Basement: Poetry

Heavenly Sex is a book of poems about varieties of love, sacred and profane, particularly as experienced by a young man who has recently lost his mother. It is, at the same time, as noted by Robert Bly, a celebration of one of the more unusual father-son relationships. In one poem the son observes h... Read More about Heavenly Sex

Robert Swarda€(TM)s" Collected Poems" received attention from Alan Cheuse, bookreviewer for National Public Radio in Encylopedia Britannica, naming it one ofthe top poetry books in North America. Sward has taught at CornellUniversity, the Iowa Writersa€(TM) Workshop, and at the UC Santa Cruz Exte... Read More about The Collected Poems of Robert Sward 1957 - 2004