In this work, Rosemarie Dombrowki's poetry dwells between the verbal and the nonverbal through her creation of gripping symbols to represent the everyday life she shares with her autistic son. The result is a lyrical, visceral dance that entices the reader into a music-world of language to sway together with Dombrowski and her son as they navigate the hostilities of medical specialists, the ignobilities of the body, and discover a makeshift communication of sounds and images, where we hang precariously, along with her, between the good days and the bad ones.

Book of Emergencies

Literature & Fiction

Dombrowski, Rosemarie

Poetry

Five Oaks Press

Review\n"The dead bird is a kind of song." Thus, The Philosophy of Unclean Thingsconfidently opens, setting a precise tone that is at once clear and inscrutable.In Rosemarie Dombrowski's hands, forthright statement is not explained, but an occasion to launch a profound meditation on Lorca's "act of loyalty," morality as "a dilemma," and the poet's ancient, sacred search "for the words."To say that this poet herself follows Dante's instructions to Calliope, "to strike a higher key, /to raise poetry from the dead," is to gesture toward the powerful spells these taut, smart poems cast.I celebrate this beautiful collection. Cynthia Hogue author of eight poetry collections, includingRevenance(Red Hen Press, 2014), Or Consequence(Red Hen Press, 2010), The Incognito Body (Red Hen Press, 2006), andFlux(New Issues Press 2002) Dombrowski's poems are at once bold, tender, and electric. Each one reaches out to the edge of experience, displaying its full, dazzling wingspan, and then builds even more energy as it folds back up and contracts. Guided by gorgeous prose and an unwavering curiosity, this collection showcases Dombrowski's skills as a conservationist, a writer who is as interested in decay, disappearance, and repetition as she is in what makes a memory, or a moment, linger. Angie Dell Assistant Director at the Piper Center for Creative Writing, Arizona State University"

The Philosophy of Unclean Things

Finishing Line Press

In the expanded 2nd edition of this work, Rosemarie Dombrowki's poetry dwells between the verbal and the nonverbal through her creation of gripping symbols to represent the everyday life she shares with her autistic son. The result is a lyrical, visceral dance that entices the reader into a music-world of language to sway together with Dombrowski and her son as they navigate the hostilities of medical specialists, the ignobilities of the body, and discover a makeshift communication of sounds and images, where we hang precariously, along with her, between the good days and the bad ones.

The Book of Emergencies

These technically experimental poems express an almost religious devotion to the minerals of the Southwest, but they are also a kind of sleight-of-hand, creating a metonymic landscape where every corner of the Southwest represents a human love affair with land, body, and other. Thus, the poems are a geologically obfuscated narrative sequence, a story of our desire for anything volcanic, anything that approximates a cure for the modern world, a heaven of the earth's making.

The Cleavage Planes of Southwest Minerals [A Love Story]

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Book of Emergencies

The Philosophy of Unclean Things

The Book of Emergencies

The Cleavage Planes of Southwest Minerals [A Love Story]