Bobby Rogers 
Paper Anniversary [EPUB ebook] 

<b>Winner of the 2009 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize</b>

“There is something in American poetry that might be called the book of the small town or, equally, the tale of the good family; or, if you like, the American Grafitti Suite. Poems that discover life’s bonuses in new love, wise parents, old books, venerable nature, and the mysteries of all that endures in the face of the viciousness no life escapes—are, well, worth the wait. That’s how I feel about <i>Paper Anniversary.</i> His poems are full of the best news, the kind the soul, as W. C. Williams attested, can get nowhere better than in the life of the lively mind. I think any reader will find this an auspicious, welcome arrival.” —Dave Smith

About the author

<b>Bobby C. Rogers</b> is professor of English at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. His poems have appeared in the <i>Southern Review, </i> the <i>Georgia Review, Image, Shenandoah, Puerto del Sol, </i> and numerous other magazines. He is the recipient of the Greensboro Review Literary Prize in Poetry and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.