Washington Writers' Publishing House

Testimonials

• In this fine debut collection, Robert Herschbach’s unfailing eye discovers coherence amid unlikeness. Stewardesses embody figureheads set loose from prows; grandmothers resemble improbable flowers. This is a book of neighborhood beauties, of lavish ephemera—very close, but out of reach were it not for these poems, these improbable predictions surprising memory with freshness.

  Angela Ball

• An astonishing first collection, Robert Herschbach’s Loose Weather delivers a fully formed and fluent vision, ambitious as Hellenistic Athens, haunted as Pompeii, strange as fluorescent swimwear. Part sensual historian, part historian of the senses, Herschbach’s range is capacious and rare—an American poetry international in scope, a flâneur in the age of supersonic travel, all with a fullness of perception that recalls Baudelaire’s kaleidoscope gifted with consciousness.

  James Kimbrell