Winner of the 2000 Blue Lynx Prize

Driving Face Down: Poems (Lynx House Press)

Literature & Fiction

Robbins, Doren

History & Criticism

Lynx House Press

The roots and the towers : poems

Third Rail Press

A poet examines his life: what he's been dealt, what he's chosen, the workings of history with personal griefs and delights, 'amnesty' of an uneasy coming-to-terms with self and others, being his muse. There's a macabre wit, masculine vulnerability, and soul-conflict in the best of these poems, adding up to a very strong book.

Amnesty Muse

Poetry

Lost Horse Press

Robbins's work sounds very little like most of what is being published in America by poets his age -He comes out of another tradition, one we forget in these indifferent times at our own peril, the tradition of Villon, of Corbier, Celine, Henry Miller, Tom McGrath, and most recently Gerald Stern, the great outsiders who bless our daily lives with their boundless love and rage. Praise from Philip Levine

My Piece of the Puzzle

Carnegie-Mellon University Press

Parking Lot Mood Swing: Autobiographical Monologues And Prose Poetry

Cedar Hill Books

Poetry. With collages by the author. Doren Robbins' unique voice of existential disgust and cynicism comes through in a relentless damning of our culture, politics and state of being. And yet, it is hilarious, laugh-out-loud funny, the absurdity of the human condition splayed on the pages of TWIN EXTRA for our examination. "As out there as on an LA freeway. Pushing the mind, the language, the knowable, the absurdities, the 'dipshitalore,' the passions, the maturity of a surrealist—one's self and one's reality. His intellectual, linguistic, vast roaming in these poems will blow you away in recognition, gratitude, and awe…What an accomplishment! What joy!"—Sharon Doubiago "TWIN EXTRA is a delicatessen Walt Whitman, satirical yet dead- serious and playing for keeps, coming to grips with the infernal system of life in an ironically and grotesquely distorted American hell … Doren Robbins' poems bring to mind the self-revelatory stanzas in Whitman's 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,' but now the river is underground, the ferry has become Rimbaud's Drunken Boat, and the city's an infernal ruins populated with labyrinthine memories of alienated and damaged souls caught in the contradictions generated by dystopian capitalism."—Uri Hertz

Twin Extra

United States

Wild Ocean Press

"Study with contemporary analogs to political and social events around the poetry of Sharon Doubiago, their collection called Naked To The Earth"--

Apocalypse Contemporary: A Sequence-By-Sequence Overview On Sharon Doubiago’s Naked to the Earth

Spuyten Duyvil Publishing

"That's the deal with that day. Chrome, wet grass, windshields, the mind jumps you squint apart from jagged everything mirrors in sunlight. Anywhere. Santa Monica, Naples, filthy elegant Naples in the seat of my car, the return, you recognize the pattern nodding the constricted rhythm reluctant nod the surprised tightened breath, cyclic tint and the aura, the suddenness, the exactness it stays along side of you like a wind pulling all of your seams from a single thread-and you want to ask, but who are you going to ask? The vine petals spread the wall from the base up"--

Sympathetic Manifesto: Selected Poems 1975-2015

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