The name of the bow is life, Heraclitus said, but its work is death. In these powerful poems, at once lyrical and concrete, Robert Hill Long attains a profound realization of life by looking unflinchingly into the bull's eye of death.

The Work of the Bow

Long, Robert Hill

Robert Hill Long

Cleveland State University Poetry Center

<p>Poetry. " Robert Hill Long's poems have the feel of land and history seen in moments of personal definition, seen through the lens of a family. His voice speaks in long and fluent lines with both freedom and formal assurance, of the experience of war, and of the war and peace of human affection. It is a voice that praises the voluptuous body of earth, and incorporates the sad flotsam of a family, of mortality. At times wickedly funny, at others haunted by the legend and landscape of America, his poems are always politically informed and alert, and our poetry is the richer"-Robert Morgan.</p>

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