Signal
from Draco: New & Selected Poems. Poet/Writer/Musician Mebane Robertson
spent his formative years in Richmond, VA. and New Orleans, Louisiana. A graduate
of William & Mary College he currently resides in NYC where he is a PhD
candidate in American Literature. His poems have been published in dozens of
literary and online publications including the Beloit Poetry Journal, Blue Unicorn,
The Journal, Mudfish, The Lyric, Guernica, Poetalk, and many, many more. He
was a finalist for the Ohio State University Book Award and one of his poems
was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. As a songwriter/musician he has
put out four cds to date and has played and continues to play many venues in
NYC. Black Widow Press is pleased to publish Mr. Robertson's first book of collected
poems. (www.mebanediscs1.net)
"The poems in Signal from Draco move from, within, and beyond tradition;
they can be as formal, gorgeously metrical as they can be slippery, playful
(however dark) events not easily parsed. Always here is a war between inner
and outer forces, and an absolutely unique sense of grace, poetic dexterity,
humor in a maelstrom, which compels us to read and reread them. Mebane Robertson
reinvents his multiplicitous 'mother tongue' again and again...."
- Karl Parker, Hobart & William Smith Colleges
Signal
from Draco: New & Selected Poems. Poet/Writer/Musician Mebane Robertson
spent his formative years in Richmond, VA. and New Orleans, Louisiana. A graduate
of William & Mary College he currently resides in NYC where he is a PhD
candidate in American Literature. His poems have been published in dozens of
literary and online publications including the Beloit Poetry Journal, Blue Unicorn,
The Journal, Mudfish, The Lyric, Guernica, Poetalk, and many, many more. He
was a finalist for the Ohio State University Book Award and one of his poems
was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. As a songwriter/musician he has
put out four cds to date and has played and continues to play many venues in
NYC. Black Widow Press is pleased to publish Mr. Robertson's first book of collected
poems. (www.mebanediscs1.net)