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	Robert Sward, 1933-. American author
		Robert Sward emerged as a promising young American poet in the late 1950’s.
		A Chicago native, Sward was educated at the University of Illinois (BA, 1956), Middlebury College, and the University of Iowa (MA, 1958).
		Sward left Cornell in the mid-1960’s and spent much of the remaining decade traveling extensively in the United States and England teaching poetry workshops and giving readings.
	library.wustl.edu /units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/sward/sward.html (465 words)

	Black Moss Press books by Robert Sward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Robert Sward’s poems, based on his father’s life, capture the tension between a profession where one does something with one’s hands--performing surgery on feet, cutting corns, carving arch supports--a trade in a sense, and talking with angels, seeing the two worlds: visible and invisible and how 7/8 of everything is invisible anyway.
		Sward, now living in San Diego, is a poet and journalist who worked in Toronto throughout the 1980s as a CBC broadcaster, and journalist for The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail and The Financial Times.
		Sward also won the Guggenheim Fellowship to complete a sequence of poems about Chicago combined with family history.
	www.blackmosspress.com /2SwardRobertBooks.html (371 words)

	Chatoyant
		In the spirit of disclosure, I must admit that Robert Sward is a friend of mine.
		Sward's latest poetry collection, Rosicrucian in the Basement, brings across his exuberance in a readable, laugh-out-loud celebration of familial love.
		Sward ties it all together---the lecturing father, eccentric relatives, temporary wives, confused children---with a final homage to his mother, who died when he was fifteen.
	www.chatoyant.com /reviews/rosicrucian.html (597 words)

	Black Moss Author Robert Sward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		"Robert Sward is the master of the logical incongruity – the very essence of surprise and delight in poetry.
		ROBERT SWARD has taught at Cornell University; the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop; the University of Victoria; and UC Santa Cruz.
		Sward has worked as broadcaster for CBC Radio and feature writer and reviewer for The Globe and Mail; The Toronto Star; and the Financial Times.
	www.blackmosspress.com /2_Author_Sward.html (2354 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Robert Sward
		Sward Is Bond: Robert Sward explores his relationship with his father in his newest book.
		Sward insists that the father's crack of materialism in the midst of mystical reverie has a long tradition, dating back to ancient Greek times.
		Sward also expounds on the virtues of tantric yoga and the mystical possibilities of sex, but stops short when I ask him if his father was into all of this kink-arati.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/12.04.02/sward-0249.html (702 words)

	Swards found Swiftly
		Set-stocked swards should be maintained at a grazing height of 7cm...
		Inclusion of white clover in strip-grazed perennial ryegrass swards: herbage intake and milk yield of dairy...
		THERE is no need to be an organic producer to use grass/clover swards in a grassland system and with increases in the cost of nitrogen the use of grass/clover swards with a minimal input of inorganic fertiliser becomes more attractive...
	www.movefm.co.uk /moveinfo/swards.html (490 words)

	the constant reader recommends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Starting with the Rosicrucian of its title --- Sward's podiatrist father who takes up the practice after his wife's death --- visiting one-by-one his offspring, as children and adults, and ending with an incantatory homage to his mother, Sward takes us on a lightning tour of generations of an eccentric Jewish American family.
		Moving from World War II Chicago to modern L.A., we're introduced to Sward's daughter -- "ring in her navel, / rings on her thumbs" -- a son -- "a musician / a prophet / a raging Apollo" and a second son -- whose "girlfriend / plays back [my] message.
		Sward ties it all together -- the lecturing father, eccentric relatives, temporary wives, confused children -- with a final homage to his mother, who died when he was fifteen.
	www.constantreader.org /v3/books57.html (1407 words)

	Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: The Collected Poems of Robert Sward 1957 - 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		From the thousand or so poems he has written since he began writing in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War, these are the ones he has chosen to preserve.
		He is a compassionate storyteller who looks at life through the sincerity and profundity of genuine wit, always rising above the ordinary, the mundane and the despairing.
		Robert Sward has taught at Cornell University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and University of California Santa Cruz.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0887533922/reviews (254 words)

	Purr - All at Sea with T.S.E. by Robert Sward
		Prufrock attends these teas, notices the women's' arms 'downed with light brown hair!' and it scares the hell out of him because what he longs to do is to get them onto a drawing room floor or a beach somewhere and bury his face in that same wonderfully tantalizing 'light brown hair'.
		Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Robert Sward has taught at Cornell University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop and University of California Extension in Santa Cruz.
		Sward's Four Incarnations, New & Selected Poems, was published by Coffee House Press (Minneapolis).
	www.purrmag.com /Purr15/eliot.htm (1986 words)

	Amazon.com: A Much-Married Man, A Novel: Books: Robert Sward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In A Much-Married Man, poet and novelist Robert Sward takes a provocative, serio-comic look at the life and loves of ex-baseball player Noah Newmark, a 47-year-old serial monogamist struggling to keep his fifth and current marriage alive.
		Sward's novel is set at Mt. Chakra, the socially hierarchical Yoga Country Club where Noah examines his past with the aid of Rama P. Rama, a silent East Indian physician.
		But this is a poet's novel, after all, and Noah's quest for the heart of marriage culminates not in a reunion with Holly but in an hallucinatory vision: five women dancing on an airplane's wing at 30,000 feet, the five muses who have left a record of love on his heart.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0921215991?v=glance (1073 words)

	Chris Watson: Bookends Right time for the power of poetry October 28, 2001
		Sward recalled the first time his father took him into the basement to see the altar he had set up.
		What Sward doesn’t suggest is that we "clog the airways" with untried poetry that will ring false 24 hours from now.
		More than ever, Sward said, poetry is required — poetry to urge us to action, to clarify our feelings, to be solace in a time of disruption.
	www.santacruzsentinel.com /archive/2001/October/28/style/stories/09style.htm (1317 words)

	PSH Webstore - Heavenly Sex, New and Selected Poems - Canadian Poetry and Poets
		We can claim Robert Sward as Canadian in about the same way we often claim Saul Bellow as a countryman, and in doing so be justifiably proud of the literary talent this great land of ours spawns.
		Sward bounces off John Ashbery's oblique diving board to land in Stuart Ross' swimming pool.
		Robert Sward has taught at Cornell University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and UC Santa Cruz.
	www.poets.ca /pshstore/profile_book.asp?ISBN=0887533752 (423 words)

	Poetry Magazine, Robert Sward, September 2000
		Guggenheim award-winner Robert Sward teaches at University of California in Santa Cruz.
		Chosen by Lucille Clifton to receive a Villa Montalvo Literary Arts Award, he is the author of 16 books including Four Incarnations, New and Selected Poems (Coffee House Press), The Toronto Islands (nonfiction), and A Much-Married Man, A Novel.
		Robert Sward is "one of my favorite poets" and "the startling, perfect lines, the twist, the playfulness, the magical use of speech rhythms, colloquial speech make Sward a writer I never tire of, always find delightful.
	www.poetrymagazine.com /archives/2000/September00/sward.htm (1010 words)

	Poetry Santa Cruz \| Interviews
		His poetry has appeared in a dizzying array of magazines and anthologies throughout Canada, America and the U.K. Born and raised in Chicago, Sward served in the U.S. Navy in the combat zone during the Korean War and attended the University of Illinois and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop with the G.I. Bill.
		Sward produced four major broadcasts for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, including interviews with Margaret Atwood, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Leonard Cohen, John Robert Colombo and Earle Birney.
		Robert Sward: At lunch recently a friend and I were celebrating the publication and he held up the cover—the artwork—for a waitress to admire.
	www.baymoon.com /~poetrysantacruz/interviews/sward2.html (4963 words)

	Finding-Aid for the Robert Sward Papers (WTU00110)
		While he was at Cornell, Sward's colleagues included the poets A.R. Ammons and William Meredith, both of whom helped promote Sward's poetry.
		It was Cornell University Press, in fact, that brought Sward's work to the attention of the academic community by publishing his two early collections, Kissing the Dancer and Other Poems (1964) and Thousand Year Old Fiancee and Other Poems (1965).
		Sward reads and performs regularly as one of the "Three Roberts" (Sward, Robert Zent, and Robert Priest) and recently had a major collection of poetry published by Aya Press, Half a Life's History: Poems New and Selected, 1957-1983 (1983).
	library.wustl.edu /units/spec/manuscripts/mlc/findingaidshtml/wtu00110.html (841 words)

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		Robert's work has appeared in over 300 publications, including The New Yorker, Paris Review, Poetry (Chicago), The Hudson Review, textbooks and anthologies.
		"Robert Sward's language seems to have been invented only this morning, as fresh as childhood, as wise as the animals in the oldest myth.
		Sward's poems are deceptively simple paeans to his life and love.
	webdelsol.com /LITARTS/Robert_Sward (1688 words)

	Kissing the Dancer by Robert Sward
		You cannot recognize Robert Sward's poems by any such affinity.
		From reading Robert Frost I have learned to look for giveaway lines in poems, hidden lines that tell the sly reader some of the secrets by which a poet works.
		With Sward these secret lines are not only hidden but often apparently in the negative, recounting apparent creative errors.
	capa.conncoll.edu /sward.kiss.htm (7545 words)

	IHD: Media Release 17.05.2002 (NRE networks, nursery industry) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The training day was run under the guidance of Dr Robert Sward, IHD's Team Leader Education and Training, in association with Robert Chin, Industry Development Officer for the Nursery and Garden Industry Association of Victoria (NGIAV).
		Mr Chin commented that he could not have been happier with the inputs from all staff involved and the "seamless" way in which IHD and the assembled team of people brought the whole day together.
		Dr Sward said that these comments were a great testament to the professionalism of IHD and associated staff.
	www.nre.vic.gov.au /agvic/ihd/resources/mr-20020517.htm (298 words)

	Leonard Cohen, a conversation with Robert Sward
		The absence of the casual has always attracted me. I've always considered the act of speaking in public to be very, very important and that's why I've never been terribly touched by the kind of work that is so deliberately casual, so deliberately colloquial.
		There are many great masters of that form, like Robert Creeley, but it isn't the sweetness for me. It isn't delicious.
		Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Robert Sward is the author of 12 books including A Much-Married Man, A Novel, (1996) and Four Incarnations, New & Selected Poems (1991), published by Coffee House Press.
	www.leonardcohenfiles.com /sward.html (3098 words)

	Who's
		Winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Robert Sward is the author of sixteen books.
		A former CBC radio broadcaster, feature writer and reviewer for The Toronto Star and Globe and Mail, he has taught at Cornell University, the University of Iowa Writers' workshop and, currently, at the University of California Extension in Santa Cruz.
		Robert Sward, PO Box 7062, Santa Cruz CA USA 95061-7062, phone: 831-426-5247
	www.poets.ca /linktext/direct/sward.htm (242 words)

	Press Releases
		Robert Sward (pictured right) was born on the Jewish North Side of Chicago.
		A Guggenheim Fellow, Villa Montalvo Literary Arts Award winner, and internet pioneer, Sward was among the first to embrace the medium as a viable venue for poetry and the oral tradition.
		Robert Bly says: "I like the wide sweep of it.
	www.poetrytodayonline.com /id17.htm (243 words)

	Poetry Flash @ Cody's
		Robert Pinsky said, "Like a young athlete who has learned to apply extravgant gifts beyond mere virtuosity, Peter Campion brings his extraordinary ear and imagination to large subjects.
		Born to make music out of consonants and vowels, he can sustain that music through a range from ecstatic outcry to whispered conversation.
		Robert Bly says of him, "I like the wide sweep of it.…There's much leaping, but each line, so to speak, steps firmly on something solid."
	www.poetryflash.org /codys.current.html (2232 words)

	Magazines
		Among the recorded poets are Stanley Plumly, Stanley Kunitz, Linda Pastan, Robert Pinsky, Donald Hall.
		Well-designed, consistently interesting, and particularly notable for its interviews with Robert Pinsky, Robert Creeley, Charles Simic, Henry Taylor, Neal Bowers.
		Fiction and poetry in some issues, though the focus is on scholarly essays and reviews related to contemporary arts and culture.
	www.wordcircuits.com /literature/mags.htm (1792 words)

	Annotated List of Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Not being a fan of the way they have spread James Joyce's slender audio output over a number of anthology type tapes, I was initially reluctant to recommend this lot.
		The sound quality is deliberately not great (they want you to buy their tapes), but some gripping performances.
		Of note is the archive of Daniel Kane's interviews, which include poems (text and audio), with poets such as Bernadette Mayer, Fanny Howe, Robert Creeley, John Ashbery, Rae Armantrout, Robert Pinsky and others.
	www.wildhoneypress.com /links.htm (3156 words)

	poetrymagazines.org.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Four Paintings (by courtesy of the Robert Frazer gallery) - 1
		Four Paintings (by courtesy of the Robert Frazer gallery) - 2
		Four Paintings (by courtesy of the Robert Frazer gallery) - 3
	www.poetrymagazines.org.uk /magazine/issue.asp?id=277 (68 words)

	Poetry of the foot S.C. poet to read unusual works SENTINEL STAFF REPORT September 23, 2001
		But Santa Cruz poet Robert Sward has done just that, writing a book of poems about his father’s work as a podiatrist.
		Sward will read from that book, "Rosicrucian in the Basement," at the Capitola Book Cafe on Tuesday.
		Sward said that part of the motivation for the book "is to answer the question: What was that all about?
	www.santacruzsentinel.com /archive/2001/September/23/style/stories/05style.htm (230 words)

	Amazon.com: Rosicrucian in the Basement: Selected Poems: Books: Robert Sward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		After his wife's death he became a devout Rosicrucian, a member of a society venerating the rose and the cross as symbols of Christ's resurrection and redemption and claiming various occult powers.
		There are many mysteries between father and son that people don't talk about....
		The father figure comes through consistently, there's a lot of buoyancy, and the son is consistent and fine too." - Robert Bly, author of Iron John
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0887533531?v=glance (475 words)

	Robert Sward: Introduction to "Pares 4" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		English novelist George Eliot was on the right track when she wrote, "Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy:—in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures." Yeah, I had that in mind.
		And Robert Frost who insisted, "Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat." In his best poems he succeeded in doing just that.
		And Allen Ginsberg who wrote, "Poetry is not an expression of the party line.
	rehue.csociales.uchile.cl /rehuehome/facultad/publicaciones/Pares/pares4/notsward.htm (503 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Apologies this issue to Robert Sward for not being able to publish more of his poetry.
		Taking it into something holy Flagrant violations of all pigs that talks over the back fence Root about with dirt-caked snouts Counting syllables like mushrooms, Blackening her upper lip.
		********************************************************** LULLABY - Robert Sward** Rockabye dust in the mourning cradle, rockabye soul in the lowered box, rockabye stone on them all, and flowers, rockabye, rockabye, rock!
	wings.buffalo.edu /epc/ezines/exper/exper05.html (1207 words)

	Richard A. Beal
		A Much Married Man by Robert Sward (fiction, humor & human insight)
		The Invention that Changed the World by Robert Buderi (non-fiction, history of radar)
		Joffrey Ballet: Robert Joffrey and the making of an American dance company by Sasha Anawalt (non-fiction, dance history)
	www.beal-net.com /richard/index4.html (694 words)

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