Call and Response - Paperback

by Rob Carney (Author)

In Rob Carney's eighth collection, the titles call out in one voice and the poems respond in another, sometimes directly, sometimes diagonally, but always memorably. The book begins with a current event that sparks a time-travel quest for justice, then it keeps on journeying: from Utah to the ocean; from humor to elegy; from lessons learned at Sea School to a literary church and final congregational Amen. Among the poems here is one titled " I've Still Got My Passport." Think of this book as a passport too; it's a trip.

Author Biography

ROB CARNEY is the author of nine books of poems, most recently The Book of Drought (Texas Review Press 2024) and Call and Response (Black Lawrence Press 2021). He is a recipient of the XJ Kennedy Prize in Poetry, the Milton Kessler Memorial Prize, the Robinson Jeffers/Tor House Foundation Award for Poetry, and he has written a featured series called " Old Roads, New Stories" for the award-winning online journal Terrain.org for the last nine years. Favorite drink: coffee. Favorite animal: the Great White. He is a Professor of English at Utah Valley University and lives in Salt Lake City.