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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Still on Earth
    sub title: poems
  name:
    name part: Romtvedt, David
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: lau
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 91 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: In Still on Earth, David Romtvedt addresses the sometimes disconcerting, sometimes thrilling and, if we are to believe the poet, always wacky intersections and collisions between a person and the society and culture within which that person exists-crawls, swims, flies, lives and one day dies. The book presents the apparently autobiographical history of an individual who is a writer only in the moment of writing. Romtvedt depicts the speaker as a child of working-class parents in a house with no books, a child for whom books were, as is often the case, a refuge and an escape. The childhood that emerges is one that offered the opportunity, per the voice of the father in the poem "Thunderstorm," to toughen up. A poem, the father in the book argues, is worth next to nothing. And while the son disagrees, having experienced transformation through language, he also recognizes that the poem cannot buy the groceries and pay the rent. Or perhaps it can and it's just tricky. After having devoted years to writing, the poet remains uncertain and speculates that uncertainty is not so bad and is preferable to knowing. Between the person and the poet, Still on Earth presents the angel who seems to have the same father that the person and the poet had. The two fathers are too close for comfort. For the angel, we must imagine a being with no experience of the physical suddenly confronted with the demands of the body, a being both naïve and worldly-otherworldly. The angel has been here before. In Romtvedt's reckoning, we all have. It's just hard to remember.
  note: David Romtvedt.
  classification: PS3568.O5655 S75 2025
  classification: 811/.54
  identifier: 9780807183960
  identifier: 0807183962
  identifier: 9780807184479
  identifier: 9780807184486
  identifier: 2024047663
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 241021
    record change date: 20250521163406.1
    record identifier: in00005642324