Robert Ronnow: Poetry

This site contains selections from New & Selected Poems, 1975-2005 by Robert Ronnow, published by and available from Barnwood Press, and selections from Whole Wide World, my personal, unpublished anthology of poems by other poets from many times and places. Contact Robert Ronnow; Listen to Music; Read Blurbs


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Whole Wide

World

Poems for My Sons

An Anthology of Poems

2K B.C. - 2K A.D.


"An original voice." --W.S. Merwin

"Ronnow puts some meaning back into the term
'experimental'. . .a poet who is both idiosyncratic
and based in the best elements
of a literary tradition." --Lewis Turco

"Often experimental, political, sexual, emotional,
but most of all surprising . . . a man and poet
whose personal convictions and writing passion
are not mutually exclusive."
--Alice Osborn in Pedestal Magazine

"Ronnow’s work finds 'salvation in the details'. . . New
& Selected Poems/ 1975-2005 deepens and grows more
interestingly rich as it progresses, and one is left with the
feeling that Ronnow’s development as both a poet and a
man is ongoing. May this be said of all of us."
Christy Corp-Minamiji for Blogcritics

"Very rich reading." --Naomi Shihab Nye
"Untitled Improvisation"
 Robert Ronnow, muted cornet; Riley Sinder, piano
     recorded January, 1983, Brooklyn, NY



Selections from "BCC Jazz Ensemble Plays Music by
Thelonius Monk", Allen Livermore, tenor saxophone;
Levi Owens, alto saxophone; Robert Ronnow, trumpet;
Carlton Maaia, piano; Pete Toigo, bass;
Greg Bednarski, drums
recorded April, 2003, Pittsfield, MA

Straight, No Chaser

I Mean You

Let's Cool One

Round Midnight

Evidence

In Walked Bud

Eronel

The Good Life
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