The Philosophy of Unclean Things by Rosemarie Dombrowski
$19.99
“The dead bird is a kind of song.” Thus, The Philosophy of Unclean Things confidently opens, setting a precise tone that is at once clear and inscrutable. In Rosemarie Dombrowski‘s hands, forthright statement is not explained, but an occasion to launch a profound meditation on Lorca’s “act of loyalty,” morality as “a dilemma,” and the poet’s ancient, sacred search “for the words.” To say that this poet herself follows Dante’s instructions to Calliope, “to strike a higher key,/to raise poetry from the dead,” is to gesture toward the powerful spells these taut, smart poems cast. I celebrate this beautiful collection.
—Cynthia Hogue, author of eight poetry collections, including Revenance (Red Hen Press, 2014), Or Consequence (Red Hen Press, 2010), The Incognito Body (Red Hen Press, 2006), and Flux (New Issues Press 2002).
Dombrowski’s poems are at once bold, tender, and electric. Each one reaches out to the edge of experience, displaying its full, dazzling wingspan, and then builds even more energy as it folds back up and contracts. Guided by gorgeous prose and an unwavering curiosity, this collection showcases Dombrowski’s skills as a conservationist, a writer who is as interested in decay, disappearance, and repetition as she is in what makes a memory, or a moment, linger.
—Angie Dell, Assistant Director at the Piper Center for Creative Writing, Arizona State University
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The Philosophy of Unclean Things
by Rosemarie Dombrowski
$19.99, full-length, paper
978-1-63534-101-0
2017
Rosemarie Dombrowski is the founder of rinky dink press, the co-founder of the Phoenix Poetry Series, a poetry editor for Four Chambers, and the host of the monthly literary salon, Get Lit. She has received four Pushcart nominations – three for The Book of Emergencies (Five Oaks Press, 2014) – and was a finalist for the Pangea Poetry Prize in 2015. She’s currently a Senior Lecturer at Arizona State University’s Downtown campus where she serves as the editor-in-chief of the undergraduate writing journal and teaches courses on radical poetics, women’s literature, and creative ethnography.
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