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When Thy King Is a Boy

When Thy King Is a Boy

by Ed Roberson
When Thy King Is a Boy

When Thy King Is a Boy

by Ed Roberson

Overview

C.D. Wright has described Roberson’s work as “lyric poetry of meticulous design and lasting emotional significance," comparing its musical qualities to the work of saxophonist Steve Lacy, jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780822952145
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 05/15/1970
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Edition description: 1
Pages: 88
Product dimensions: 7.80(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Ed Roberson is a former professor of literature and creative writing at Rutgers University. He has taught at the University of Chicago and Columbia College Chicago. Roberson is the recipient of the Stephen Henderson Critics Award for Achievement in Literature, and has also won an LA Times Book Award, the 2008 Shelley Memorial Award from The Poetry Society of America, the 1998 National Poetry Series Award, and the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award.
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Poetry
American Poetry
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American poetry->20th century
American poetry->African American authors->20th century
American poetry->Male authors
Poetry
American Poetry
20th Century American Poetry
African American Poetry
Other American Poetry
American poetry->20th century
American poetry->African American authors->20th century
American poetry->Male authors

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