Lawrence Raab

These poems offer powerful evocations of the most human of themes: loneliness, the haunting resolution of doubt, love's many shades, and a deeply intelligent form of comfort amid the messiness of emotions.

Poems

Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts

A latest volume by the National Poetry Series-winning and National Book Award-finalist author of What We Don't Know About Each Other explores mysteries that are inherent in everyday deceptions, inexplicable violence, unexpected compassion, and more. Original.

The History of Forgetting

Rube Goldberg

Ian Berry

Influential, early 20th-century cartoonist Rube Goldberg sets the stage for contemporary artists engaged with humorous explorations of mechanical devices. Combines original Goldberg material with paintings, video, sculpture, and installations from artists such as Fischli & Weiss, Roman de Salvo, Jeanne Silverthorne, Tim Hawkinson, and more. Old-timey cartoony stuff, weird and fun.

Rube Goldberg and Contemporary Art

Chain Reaction

A poem by Lawrence Raab is a carefully chosen and precisely rendered moment—a poised and elegant meditation on the nature of memory. This new collection includes a selection from each of Raab's five previous books of poetry, as well as twenty-one new poems. Readers will delight in their wide-ranging subjects, from "Miles Davis on Art" to "Saint Augustine's Dog," from the inventions of Rube Goldberg to the recklessness of dreams.

New and Selected Poems

Visible Signs

A poet's meditations on the artistry of Edwin Arlington Robinson, Thomas Hardy, Wisawa Szymborska, Ben Jonson, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, Lewis Carroll, and Robert Frost, the paintings of Renae Magritte, and a collaborative writing process with poet Stephen Dunn.--

Lawrence Raab

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