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God is in the Cracks 2nd printing
“The heart and core of this book is a series of dramatic monologues and
dialogues between father and son.
The irrepressible aliveness and weird wisdom of the father-son series should win it a lasting place in the literature of our day.”
--Robyn Sarah, The Globe & Mail
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The Collected Poems 2nd printing
“By turns humorous and serious, ecstatic and perplexed, he is always fanciful,
lively and life-affirming. Sward's Collected Poems is that most unusual thing in contemporary poetry: a good-humored, gregarious
and heartfelt book, abundantly human and unfeigned.”
-- Robyn Sarah, The Globe & Mail
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To Be Published Oct. 1, 2011
New & Selected Poems 1957-2011
“Here is Robert Sward, now in his seventies, still fresh, ingenuous, and funnier than ever. His life--and what a life--is an open book. You can read all about it here. What's more, you will want to call your friends and read poems to them over the phone. I know, I've done it.”
-- Carolyn Kizer on Four Incarnations
"...fierce, new-minted and convincing...he has a voice and a range."
-- New York Times Book Review on Kissing the Dancer.
To Be Published 2012
The Dogs in My Life
Cover art by Jim Aschbacher
“Prone to barking myself, I felt right at home. Enjoyable in the moment, the poems continue to reverberate with a much- needed wisdom.”
-- Ellen Bass
“In the animal poems there is a bravery in the face of our limitations, a warmth for our absurdities, a way of life to be gleaned from our failings and ineptitudes...a self-critique that turns our 'freakishness' into an ironic source of fulfillment and transcendence.”
-- The Carleton Miscellany