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The Bricolage of Kotegaeshi
by Howard W. Robertson
Visionary poetry by an Oregon poet whose unique style
of streaming periodicity combined with wide-ranging intellect elevates his poetry to a universal plane of experience.
ISBN:9780979393402
Publisher: The Backwaters Press
Publication Date: 2007
Pages:96
Available online from
Powell's
Books (http://www.powells.com/) or
Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/)
"Howard W. Robertson's poetry connects
me to the universe. His poems are like the viewfinder of a camera where the focus moves from the specific to the cosmic and
back. His words evoke an organic undulation along the threads that join us multidimensionally through time and space, interpersonally
and ecologically. Roberton's poems breathe with the cosmos, exhaling the beauty of daily life." --Tamara Pinkas
"Beautiful.
Truly remarkable. The tremendous breadth I am accustomed to finding in Howard W. Robertson's work is here constricted by a
narrative shape of such concision and grace that every line bristles with a double motion: the forward-moving pressure of
the narrative and a simultaneous bursting outward. Superb!" --Matthew Stadler
"Howard W. Robertson depicts
moments of contemplation and the details of space and time that compose and impinge upon that contemplation. This is beautiful,
masterful poetry, full of human invention and joy, and earthly and universal resolution." --Pattiann Rogers
"Robertson
makes syntactical use of streaming periodicity which holds the reader because of his steadiness of metaphor. He always has
the essential through-line of action unified and on-driving until the last surprising word. His tour de force is to narrate
in the first-person yet to include humanity's universal experience." --Elizabeth R. Curry
"Robertson perfects
his unique line, flitting from sublime detail to detail. He reaches a standard that sometimes seems no longer to exist in
the current poetry culture of easy praise and low expectations. He is growing into a poet of major consequence." --Grant
Cogswell
RELATED LINKS:
Howard W. Robertson
Aikikai Foundation
Oregon Ki Society
Ki Aikido USA
Aikido Schools of Ueshiba
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