Robinson, Elizabeth: Excursive

Roof Books, paperback Publication Date: April 1, 2023 Publisher Marketing: New Poetry Collection from the National Poetry Series Winner Elizabeth Robin. National Poetry Series Winner Elizabeth Robinson is the author of several collections of poetry. Her new book, EXCURSIVE, roves through a miscellany of experience and observation, responding to everything from gerrymandering to Krakatoa to beauty. Robinson offers lyric responses and disruptions in a collection of poetry that observes and interrogates the world in poems that are by turns curious, indignant, irreverent, and tender. "Alphabet book, subject primer, metaphysical tinderbox--Elizabeth Robinson's Excursive is a protean engagement with worldly categories and interior placements. Finely contemplative but strongly embodied, the poems link among themselves, join one another's tones, and develop coordinates for those spaces where 'arrival is planted within another arrival.' It is left to the reader to chart the dimensions of Robins