Amnesty Muse
ISBN 978-0-9844510-7-4
$18.00 /
25.00 (Canada)
8.5" x 5.5"
“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.”
—Adrienne Rich
About the Author(s)
Doren Robbins
Doren Robbins's poems, prose poems, and short fictions have appeared in American Poetry Review, Caliban, Cimarron Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Hotel Amerika, Indiana Review, Kayak, New Letters, North Dakota Quarterly, Poetry International, Sulphur, and many other periodicals. His recent collections of poetry, Driving Face Down (winner of the Blue Lynx Poetry Award 2001) and My Piece of the Puzzle (awarded the 2008 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Poetry Award) are published by Lynx House Press and Eastern Washington University Press. Robbins is also the author of an experimental fiction collection, Parking Lot Mood Swing: Autobiographical Monologues and Prose Poetry (Cedar Hill Press 2004). After twenty years traveling, working mostly as a broiler chef and a carpenter, he became a teacher of English and Creative Writing. He teaches at Foothill College.