Crab Orchard Review Vol. 12, No. 2, our

the Crab Orchard Series
in Poetry
Series Editor, Jon Tribble
“It is Rosser’s splendid articulation that impresses
initially, not just that her poems are well written,
but that they are so resolutely anchored in the
idioms of speech and the necessities of the human
heart. …I do not know of another poet so unafraid
of the rhapsodic and yet so capable of high wit, of
addressing the world’s ‘full frontal mundanity.’”
—Rodney Jones, author of Kingdom of the Instant
and Elegy for the Southern Drawl
Copublished with Crab Orchard Review
75 pages
ISBN 0-8093-2383-4, $14.95 paper
2000 Open Competition Award
MISERY
PREFIGURED
Poems by J. Allyn Rosser
“J. Allyn Rosser’s poems are savvy closereadings
of her daily experience. She
knows how to balance cynicism with the
hope for love in language that is freshly
minted and full of local surprises. In the
words of her own metaphor, she writes
with heart and wit about the friction
inside the machine of her life.”—Billy
Collins, author of Sailing Around the
Room and Picnic, Lightning
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