47:1 Spring 2001

PAM REHM

[A roof is no guaranatee]

The Spring 2001 issue included essays on Tom Raworth and Allen Grossman, and an avalanche of poems by Elizabeth Arnold, Rae Armantrout, Marjorie Welish, Ted Enslin, Ronald Johnson, and others. Three poets represent the issue here.

Pam Rehm’s “[A roof is no guarantee]” was selected by Robert Creeley for 2002’s Best American Poetry. In a note for that volume Rehm wrote:

This poem is about the frustration of living in a culture that separates humans from the natural world. It’s a poem that wonders what it means to live among things that I wouldn’t consider essential to living. The sparrows are a reference to Luke 12:6. (p. 215)

The poem was published in Rehm’s Gone to Earth (Flood, 2001). Her most recent book is Small Work (Flood, 2005).

[ES, 2006]

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