Etruria

By Rodney Koeneke Description Reviews Etruria is a diverse collection of poems featuring found language, ancient Latin, sitcom stars, even Marianne Moore, unified by a threading of ideas and meditations that span the ancient and contemporary. There is a pleasure found in these deep and engaging poems, and readers will find themselves returning to their favorites again and again. Also available as an audiobook The naturalness of Koeneke's essayistic explorations and his adept weaving of disparate sources make this an engaging, thoughtful, and consistently surprising collection.Publishers WeeklyHow refreshing; culturally grounded poems as if culture mattered.Barbara Hoffert, Library JournalIn a sequence of poems that at turns feel conversational (almost in the “I did this, I did that” way of Frank O’Hara), Koeneke’s Etruria is composed around and through a series of ideas. He manages the form of the poem as a way to work through considerations of the world in short essay-like me