{"id":7060,"date":"2019-08-11T20:05:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T20:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=7060"},"modified":"2020-08-18T16:47:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T16:47:48","slug":"pollock-a-poem-by-em-schorb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/pollock-a-poem-by-em-schorb\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollock. A Poem by EM Schorb."},"content":{"rendered":"
here my dream would color truth like roaches bleeding crimson bitter<\/strong>\r\npoison    leading ahead to inspiration   love    questions      accusations<\/strong>\r\ngunshots   brain-wreckage   misdirected footprints    prison   shackles<\/strong>\r\na thousand promises & quiet penance                  opening sad pretense<\/strong>\r\nregularly burning a familiar promise   simple scribbled dreams perpet-<\/strong>\r\nuate observance   remembrance   hard commandment   rearrange me<\/strong>\r\nburied beneath      torment       please       you        my clinician analyst<\/strong>\r\ndisconnect merry poetry       our better wine & recite certain darkness<\/strong>\r\neyes   fist     weapon pretending freedom   care     more like powerless<\/strong>\r\nwhispers we have against least-left morning    low nights    life     time<\/strong>\r\nif driftwood love claim me     I slide matter    marking empty alabaster<\/strong>\r\nmoon like long winter there      isolation     thinking:     look           feel<\/strong>\r\ntreading them    they almost quiver feel KNOW days    here too swept<\/strong>\r\non     not stuck     brought off     not seen     felt        thoughtless<\/strong>\r\nhow softly lightly   now I bear grace  past will   all built burden<\/strong>\r\nhovers awaiting clamor     the coming night     splintered recollections<\/strong>\r\nwill you own certain recesses of dedicated brass?     you          opening<\/strong>\r\nsmall whispered entry................................................?Pollock,51\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/strong><\/pre>\n
Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n
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E. M. Schorb attended New York University, where he fell in with a group of actors and became a professional actor. During this time, he attended several top-ranking drama schools, which led to industrial films and eventually into sales and business. He has remained in business on and off ever since, but started writing poetry when he was a teenager and has never stopped. His collection, Time and Fevers,<\/em> was a 2007 recipient of an Eric Hoffer Award for Excellence in Independent Publishing and also won the \u201cWriter\u2019s Digest\u201d Award for Self-Published Books in Poetry. An earlier collection, Murderer’s Day,<\/em> was awarded the Verna Emery Poetry Prize and published by Purdue University Press. Other collections include Reflections in a Doubtful I, The Ideologues, The Journey, Manhattan Spleen: Prose Poems, 50 Poems, and The Poor Boy and Other Poems.<\/em><\/p>\n
Schorb’s work has appeared widely in such journals as The Yale Review, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Chicago Review, The Sewanee Review, The American Scholar, and The Hudson Review.<\/p>\n
At the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2000, his novel, Paradise Square<\/em>, was the winner of the Grand Prize for fiction from the International eBook Award Foundation, and later, A Portable Chaos<\/em> won the Eric Hoffer Award for Fiction in 2004.<\/p>\n
Schorb has received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the North Carolina Arts Council; grants from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the Carnegie Fund, Robert Rauschenberg & Change, Inc. (for drawings), and The Dramatists Guild, among others. He is a member of the Academy of American Poets, and the Poetry Society of America.<\/p>\n
PRIZE-WINNING BOOKS
\nBY E.M. SCHORB
\nBooks available at Amazon.com
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Dates and Dreams<\/em>, Writer\u2019s Digest International Self-
\nPublished Book Award for Poetry, First Prize<\/p>\n
Paradise Square<\/em>, International eBook Award
\nFoundation, Grand Prize, Fiction, Frankfurt Book Fair<\/p>\n
A Portable Chaos<\/em>, The Eric Hoffer Award for Fiction,
\nFirst Prize<\/p>\n
Murderer\u2019s Day<\/em>, Verna Emery Poetry Prize, Purdue
\nUniversity Press<\/p>\n
Time and Fevers<\/em>, The Eric Hoffer Award for Poetry
\nand Writer\u2019s Digest International Self-Published Book
\nAward for Poetry, each First Prize
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\nRobin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times<\/a> at Artvilla.com<\/a> ; his publications include
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\nAll the Babble of the Souk<\/em> <\/a>, Cartoon Molecules<\/em>, Next Arrivals<\/em> and Moon Selected Audio Textual Poems<\/em>, collected poems, as well as translation of Guadalupe Grande\u00b4s La llave de niebla, as  Key of Mist<\/em> <\/a> and the recently published Tesserae<\/em> <\/a> <\/u>, a translation of Carmen Crespo\u00b4s Teselas.
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\nYou may visit Aquillrelle.com\/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop <\/a>about author.  See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)<\/a><\/p>\n
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