Robert Gray's Books
Aug.31.2009
What Others Have to Say About DREW
According to Robert Gray, Drew was the book he never intended to write. His brother, who died of a brain tumor at the age of twenty-four, was not someone he wanted to write about, and Robert spent twenty years dodging the inevitable until he found the right poems to tell this story. This novel-in-poems is an elegy, but the back porch kind, told...
Jul.08.2008
"Robert Gray expertly weaves his own words with those of some of the great poets to honor and illuminate their lives. Each poem sparks the imagination and challenges the reader to move beyond the surface into the red hot center of life." --Irene Latham, author of What Came Before "Robert Gray's keen and wry poetic homages to the diverse group of poets who have...
About Robert
Robert Gray is almost good at singing, playing the bass, writing poetry, and keeping his hair combed. His first book, I Wish That I Were Langston Hughes, has recently been published by Negative Capability Press, and he has taught writing and literature at...
Robert’s Favorite Books
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, Leaves of Grass, Lyrical Ballads, Clarissa, Huckleberry Finn, Hamlet, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The...