Radioactive City

Poems by Richard Robbins
Bellday Books, 2009

Trade paper: 54 pages, $14.00
ISBN-10: 0-9793376-2-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-9793376-2-8

"It is conceptual freshness, and a beautiful instinct for emergent shape, that makes this poetry radioactive. Robbins can spin a hitherto-undiscovered cosmos out of a single, wayward proposition, but he never loses footing in the radiant, mortal, given world. Richest invention is tempered by submission to the textures of material and social and ethical life. Vision and insight both, in other words: what more can one ask of a book of poems?"

—Linda Gregerson

Available locally at the Barnes & Noble Campus Bookstore, Maverick Bookstore, and other locations, or from internet booksellers, such as Powell's Books and Amazon.com.

If you'd like to see a sampling of poems from the book, go here. If you'd like to hear some of them, listen to

"In Manhattan, the Oracles Do Not Lie to Him"
"The Missing Man"
"Fall"
"Scene from a 1948 Movie"