And/Or by Bob King

Bob King is an Associate Professor of English at Kent State University at Stark. He lives in Fairview Park, Ohio, with his wife & daughters.

PRAISE:

 

Courageous and spot on in its all-at-once-ness, And/Or dances across a multiverse of zeitgeist moments that ultimately ground themselves in home, family, and acts of love. A balm for the 21st Century heart, each poem folds questions within answers that open for the reader like origami.
–Jessica Jones, author of Bitterroot

 

Still waters run deep. Behind the title’s minimalist façade, Bob King holds an ocean. Genius leaps off every page as King draws you to the infinite depths of his playful, eclectic mind. In his world anything can happen, and everything invariably does: he rattles dictators, invokes presidents and philosophers, writes an ode for the undead, reviews James Cameron’s latest flick, visits cake shops, dines with poets and painters, strolls down Anne Sexton’s lilac-lined street, leaks tricks of the Periodic Table, gives anatomy lessons on freeing memory from the mind, teaches propaganda, draws Venn diagrams, solves life with chemical equations and quantum physics, visits Kubla Khan’s pleasure dome, survives a trip to the Bermuda Triangle, decodes the politics of fire, injects the earth with blueberry ganache, and what not! A man who knows everything, Bob King is a modern-day polymath—a thinking person’s poet.

–Ankit Raj Ojha, author of Pinpricks: poems, and editor of Wives: poems and The Hooghly Review