Plumbers

by Robert Stewart

Price 64 pages, $8.50 cloth

ISBN 0-933532-68-7

These poems are moving, experienced--in their own hard-bitten earthy way. Pretty elegant. The knowledge in these poems is hard-won, the craft impressive. -- Phillip Lopate

Marvelous blending of the real and imaginary worlds, the physical and the cerebral, spoken in plain, forthright language and with no small amount of subtle humor. -- Kansas City Star

Plumbers reveals a finely balanced poet of unique imagination. -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Robert Stewart was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and has been a Breadloaf Scholar in Poetry and winner of the poetry prize at the Wesleyan University Writers Conference. He is managing editor for New Letters magazine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and editor of Forum, a bi-monthly magazine about the visual arts in mid-America, published by the Kansas City Artists Coalition. Since 1983, he has directed the Midwest Poets Series at Rockhurst College in Kansas City. His poetry has been anthologized in A to Z: 200 Contemporary American Poets and Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of Poetry. He is author of two chapbooks, Taking Leave and Rescue Mission; and he has edited Voices from the Interior, a collection of work by fifty-three Missouri poets.

A recorded interview with this author is available from New Letters on the Air.