The Spider Sermons by Robert Krut

Robert Krut’s new collection of poems, The Spider Sermons, bears lyric exactness and compassion into a new world of memory crossed with most things existential.  There is a sense of what is being seen here as with after images in an electrical storm. This is a brilliant book.

—Norman Dubie

These poems weave the urbane twists of highways and skyscrapers with the turns and foibles of love. Robert Krut delivers a precipice city, a galactic (but not preachy) spider, a narrator who sometimes wears a sandwich board.  In a world where “everything is becoming something else and drifting apart,” he praises the quirky tenacity of the imagination.

—Laurie Kutchins

With a winning mixture of verve and tenderness, the poems in The Spider Sermons confront the extreme significance of our daily lives. It’s the most passionate of come-ons, but with the kindest of intentions.

—Kazim Ali

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Robert Krut’s work has appeared in a wide variety of journals, including Blackbird, The Mid-American Review, and Barrow Street, among others .   In addition, his chapbook, Theory of the Walking Big Bang, was released through H-ngm-n Books. Currently, he teaches at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and lives in Los Angeles.

Book Information:

· Paperback: 74 pages
· Binding: Perfect-Bound
· Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] (Dec 2006)
· ISBN : 9781935402121

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