Northwestern University Press is honored to publish Ed Roberson’s Closest Pronunciation. Here is a teacher of poets studying his own assignments, questioning and seeking the generative capacity in looking at and seeing things that ends in the realization of a poem. In a line from the brief poem “Night Writing,” from which the chapbook draws its title, he writes, “The word closest in pronunciation / To an ambulance’s siren is ‘wrong.’ ” The collection as a whole gives voice, often quiet but always profound, to many things overlooked and neglected in culture, nature, and everyday life.

You can purchase the collection directly from Northwestern University Press HERE. 

Ed Roberson is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently To See the Earth Before the End of the World (2010), which was a finalist for the 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and one of two runners-up for the 2011 Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Award. His other honors include the 2008 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and the 2011 Stephen Henderson Critics Award for Achievement in Literature. He is currently the Distinguished Artist in Residence at Northwestern University, where he teaches in the Creative Writing Program.