Alms for Oblivion by Robert E. Wood

Alms for Oblivion by Robert E. Wood

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Janus-faced and with an unerring ear for the minor key of humanity, Bob Wood’s, Alms for Oblivion docents the reader through the back alleys (and a few grand boulevards) of Western art whether it be Coryate  tramping across Europe in the 1600s or Emmett Kelley stooping to sweep that last photon into the dust pan.  All in the cool morning air of Oxford before the first tour bus arrives – where we can contemplate Ruskin’s prudery in the same light as a Chet Baker lament, Blenheim Palace as much a place to get out of as Dodge City. And as Wood notes in “The Count to His Lover”: “In the end, my heart has a stake in it too.”  Indeed we all share a stake in this conversation about the conversation that’s been going on a long time.

–Rupert Fike

 

 

 

 

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Alms for Oblivion

by Robert E. Wood

$14.99, paper

978-1-63534-153-9

2017

Robert E. Wood teaches in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech and received a PhD in English at the University of Virginia. His poetry has appeared in such journals as Canopic Jar, Southern Humanities Review, South Carolina Review, Quiddity, Blue Fifth Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Poets and Artists, and Prairie Schooner. His chapbooks, Gorizia Notebook and Sleight of Hand, were published by Finishing Line Press. His book of ekphrastic poetry, The Awkward Poses of Others, published by WordTech, was awarded Author of the Year in Poetry by the Georgia Writers Association. The anthology On Occasion: Four Poets, One Year (Poetry Atlanta Press) contains his work together with that of fellow writers Karen Head, Blake Leland, and JC Reilly.

 

 

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