Toward the Rising Sun

the need to leave Orchestrate the departure, pull out the sails for the unbelievable for what has not yet been seen it s already tomorrow this sand is fresh on which it s so easy to go astray the rainfall is cold with crippling noises midnight sounds under the heels of women midnight sounds like a hollow pebble and calls the wild and its cold machine-guns the new couplets of the angel s secular war for the time being the man pretends to be at a standstill the secret of the undertow haunts the hour of departure the sweet scent of your skin colour of sky hidden garden peopled with the silence of tenderness Toward the Rising Sun covers more than fifteen years of poetic writing by Robert Giroux. Included in this collection are Voice Gymnastics (2001), Toward the Rising Sun (2002), And Yet (2010), and Standing on Objects (2014). Giroux deliberately flirts with narrative prose, toys with sentence rhythms and breaks, and adheres to poetic syntax and voice. This attraction for story-telling and discourse is Robert Giroux s response to Stéphane Mallarmé s verse crisis.