https://www.richardrobbinspoems.com/home daily 1.0 2021-11-24 https://www.richardrobbinspoems.com/about-1 daily 0.75 2023-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec6ddc61fad753389f6c51c/1590508786234-JBNS5P7DKZUMG82J8UMH/Booktableweb2.jpg About - About Me I was raised in California and Montana, taught in Minnesota for many years, and recently returned west to Oregon. In 2017 Lynx House Press published my sixth book of poems, Body Turn to Rain: New & Selected Poems, and in February 2023 it published my seventh, The Oratory of All Souls. Over the years, I have been fortunate to receive awards or residencies from The Loft Literary Center, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Society of America, the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers, and Willapa Bay AiR. From 1986-2014, I directed the Good Thunder Reading Series at Minnesota State Mankato, where I continued to teach in the creative writing program until retiring in May 2021. https://www.richardrobbinspoems.com/reviews daily 0.75 2023-05-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec6ddc61fad753389f6c51c/2332b588-7499-4609-aacf-58c5cff2e20d/TOOAScoverweb.jpg Reviews No matter their location or occasion, the poems in The Oratory of All Souls attempt to place themselves in the middle of fundamental human concerns, especially those connected to personal and community suffering. Their sources are memory, the historical moment, the local objects that compose each, and the “terrible love of our imagination” that makes them new in language. In these poems, questions become statements in the course of being asked. The speakers map roads into and out of grief, sometimes adopting the role of a lover, father, citizen searching for insight or right-living, only to have whatever hold on identity shift or vanish. — Publisher’s description *** The Oratory of All Souls might also have been called by the title of one of the book's most powerful poems, "The Great Litany." This book, taken in its entirety, is truly a great litany. It encompasses us all. It is moving because it is so inclusive, so unwilling to turn away from the world as it really is in all its aspects, grief-stricken as well as glorious. 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