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Advance Praise Robert Krut’s new collection of poems, The Spider Sermons, bears lyric exactness and compassion into a new world of memory crossed with most things existential. There is a sense of what is being seen here as with afterimages in an electrical storm. This is a brilliant book. —Norman Dubie These poems weave the urbane twists of highways and skyscrapers with the turns and foibles of love. Robert Krut delivers a precipice city, a galactic (but not preachy) spider, a narrator who sometimes wears a sandwich board. In a world where “everything is becoming something else and drifting apart,” he praises the quirky tenacity of the imagination. —Laurie Kutchins With a winning mixture of verve and tenderness, the poems in The Spider Sermons confront the extreme significance of our daily lives. It's the most passionate of come-ons, but with the kindest of intentions. —Kazim Ali |
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Reviews from Hayden’s Ferry Review: “It’s zesty, utterly earnest at points, but worldwise and worthwhile . . . These poems spin a rock and roll lullaby for heavens that are under serious contemplation.” “[A] sense of serious play– a smug wonder at the hard, amusing truths of humanity and eternity – is this collection’s greatest gift. The guidance systems we’ve been given are off and our collective naïveté is at once tragic, and a gut-buster.” from Rattle: “. . . crafts a magical underlying hopefulness, a set of eyes which grope and pull from all reaches of the universe in the hopes of something steadfast . . .” “With a most musical and loaded pulse, the weighty meditations of his poems envelop the reader through a guided rise and fall of sound and imagery.” “Krut’s use of musical techniques and imagistic balance allow his poems |
