The New Wing of the Labyrinth
The New Wing of the Labyrinth Ed Roberson 15.00 |
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Ed Roberson”s eighth full-length book of poetry, The New Wing of the Labyrinth, is a taut, intricately interwoven series of poems that present an unsentimental yet harrowing encounter with the finality of life: “where do we go / but to die into immunity in this life / the thousand deaths that evolve us.” As Michael Palmer has written, “Ed Roberson offers us, up front, the nerve-edge of poetic speech, sequences of the unanticipated, as poetry of real significance is meant to do.
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