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Woodland Pattern™    Book   Center		Ed Roberson Ed Roberson was described in the American Book Review as "one of those deeply skilled poets—like William Bronk, Jack Spicer, and Gustaf Sobin—who have worked far outside that matrix of professional critics and reviewers where literary reputations are determined." He is part of an astonishingly fertile generation of artists produced by the Black cutlture of Pittsburgh, where he was born and raised. His study of Limnology (the study of the phenomena of lakes, ponds and streams) has led him to Alaska, Afognak Island and Bermuda. As twice team member of the Explorer's Club of Pittsburgh South American Expeditions, he has climbed mountains in the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Andes and explored the upper Amazon jungle. Roberson lives in New Brunswick, New Jersey, where he works in the office of special programs at Cook College, a division of Rutgers University.

City Eclogue Continued Ed Roberson

Dozens of cattlebirds of paper fly around thinking a movie shot and not that they're just rubbish light enough and it's time for pick up which will dump them into dance with garbage gulls who partner themselves with popular images       pages flying winged magazines; the humped earth settles up to its horns in mud roaring       then bubbles of going under cloud air with odor— this also a local character a spirit       herding its flock of natural decompositions along a mound made into natural ground for later       their suits sheared into compost for the spin into garden earth. Naked, the planet turns itself into itself      in a mirror      model- beautiful      it shows its timeless line for season

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