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One of those books people call "dizzying" and actually mean it.
—brazos bookstore
Rock toggles between manifesto and prayer, satire and elegy, asking what stays human when attention is currency.
—carolyn forché, author of in the lateness of the world
Rock tends the lyric ember in the fires of our current era.
—Dana Levin, author of now do you know where you are
Martin Rock's impressive debut collection announces itself like a command to "Save."
—adrian matejka, editor of poetry magazine
Rock's is a wonderful new voice to encounter, a poet who takes from several different canons within our poetic tradition and makes something utterly his own from them.
—erin belieu, author of come hither, honeycomb
This is a moving, intellectually ambitious, relentlessly compelling book.
—Ilya Kaminsky, author of deaf republic
Press Kit
Short Bio
Martin Rock is the author of Infinite Scroll (Tupelo Press, 2027), selected by Carolyn Forché for the Tupelo Berkshire Prize, and Residuum, editor’s choice for the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s First Book Prize and a Foreword INDIE Book Award finalist. His poetry, essays, and translations from Japanese have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, Best American Experimental Writing, Best New Poets, Ploughshares P.S., Asymptote, Poetry International, and elsewhere. Co-editor of Other Legacies: Great Unsung American Poets (Wesleyan University Press) and Catherine Breese Davis: On the Life and Work of an American Master (Pleiades Press), he has been awarded the Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry, named runner-up for The Missouri Review Editors’ Prize, and longlisted for several prizes including the Boston Review “Discovery Prize” and the National Poetry Series. Martin holds a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston and an MFA in Poetry from New York University. He teaches writing and climate justice at the University of California San Diego, and, with poets Kevin Prufer and Wayne Miller, co-directs The Unsung Masters Series.
