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Blog Post by Robert Sward - Dec.06.2008 - 7:14 pm
How did the world begin?
What is the address of the beginning?
* * *
All existence is God.
God's presence fills the entire world.
definition is spiritual idolatry.
* * *
Prayer - it's a good thing. It gives you an edge.
But God doesn't answer prayers.
* * *
"You're prolific. How about a poem for your urologist?" she asks.
"Okay," I say.
"All I ask is that you keep it general and don't use my name."
"Okay, but I'll need the first line."
"I went for my annual."
These are such, sad, generous poems--peopled with characters it's impossible not to love, especially Robert's podiatrist-Jewish-Rosicrucian father with his wisdom that bridges dualities expounding on the feet and the soul, sex and death, the broken and the whole. In one poem, Robert asserts, In a world of 'No, dogs are a Yes.' And in the world of poetry, this book is a resounding Yes. Read it when you're happy, but especially read it when you're depressed. You'll find yourself joining in with the many dogs in these poems, saying, 'Woof, woof f----in' woof!”
—Poet Ellen Bass
About Robert
Guggenheim Fellow, chosen by Lucille Clifton for a Villa Montalvo Literary Arts Award, author of more than 20 books, including Four Incarnations (Coffee House Press), Heavenly Sex, God is in the Cracks and The Collected Poems (now in its 2nd printing),...
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Audubon Society, National Geographic, "Green," the Environment, SPCA...
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Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Saul Bellow's Adventures of Augie March, Ezra Pound's Make It New, T.S. Eliot's Collected Poems, The Autobiography of Benjamin...













Nice! i enjoy this poem (and
Nice! i enjoy this poem (and lucky to have urologist with sense ofhumor)
Urologist, journal, address of the beginning
Vickie,
Thank you. And, yes, she's one of the best...
robt.