Poetry Magazine
Craw
Source: Poetry (April 2011).
Biography
Atsuro Riley grew up in South Carolina and lives in California. His heavily stressed, percussive, consonant-rich, free-verse poems conjure up the elemental images of the lives of people inhabiting a specific, acutely portrayed landscape. His poems are dense with impressions, voices, and glimpses of people who have experienced the Vietnam War, rural life, and the South. Though grounded in a world that seems unmistakably North . . .
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Living, Coming of Age, Youth
POET’S REGION U.S., Western
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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