Publisher Description

The World's Room is a dynamic first collection in which the literary and the personal, the elevated and the slangy, the sacred and the profane are beautifully intertwined. From nursery rhymes to riddles to prose poems, Joshua Weiner's work displays boundless imaginative and linguistic possibilities.

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The World's Room is a dynamic first collection in which the literary and the personal, the elevated and the slangy, the sacred and the profane are beautifully intertwined. From nursery rhymes to riddles to prose poems, Joshua Weiner's work displays boundless imaginative and linguistic possibilities.

Author Biography

Joshua Weiner was a 2000 Witter Bynner Fellow at the Library of Congress. He teaches at Northwestern University and serves on the Writing Committee at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Psalm The Yonder Tree Overlooking Berkeley The Dog State Art Pepper Island The Not-Yet Child Lines to Stitch Inside a Child's Pocket The World's Room Nursery Rhyme Plot Market Day Who They Were Mongrel Death Blues The Visitation Epitaph The Knife Riddle Book to the City Connecting Flight Tempest Oakland Kindertotenlieder Bruno's Night

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