"The poems in this collection undulate and glitter darkly like light on deep water; they exist between here and some other place, high-up, where the whole of the human myth first began. Krut's honesty feels sacred; his generosity gives us a safe place in which to reflect and galvanize. Oh Oblivion is truly a collection to read and reread for years to come."
—Colleen Louise Barry
"Through his balletic prosody and kaleidoscopic leaps, Krut fashions a realm where the quotidian and the grotesque merge, blurring the line between the dysphoria of our waking lives and the raw matter of the dreamworld. It’s in these liminal spaces that Krut’s beautiful disquiet shines, asking us to sink into the absurd, raise a glass to our apparitions..."
—Adam Stutz
ABOUT
Robert Krut is the author of five books: Oh Oblivion (Codhill/SUNY Press, coming 2025), Watch Me Trick Ghosts (Codhill/SUNY Press, 2021), The Now Dark Sky, Setting Us All on Fire (Codhill/SUNY Press, 2019), winner of the Codhill Poetry Award; This is the Ocean (Bona Fide Books, 2013), recipient of the Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Award; and The Spider Sermons (BlazeVox, 2009). His poems have appeared in numerous journals, both in print and online. He teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Writing Program and College of Creative Studies, and lives in Los Angeles.
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