Robert Terashima packs big poems into small spaces.
—Robert Hershon
The poems of Robert Terashima are a rare combination of solidity and delicacy, of exactitude and song, of the near-to-hand and the profoundly cultural, that make for a reading experience of great resonance. They are deeply within The American Grain, and extend the work of Williams and Snyder into the present, but they are deeply within the Japanese Grain as well, and bring Issa and Kuanon seamlessly into our natural vocabulary, where, as he shows us, they have always been at home.
—Sidney Goldfarb, University of Colorado
Robert Terashima and his wife, Karen, live 20 miles south of Salt Lake City, where they have raised three children. Terashima has practiced pediatrics for 27 years. His professional interests include precepting pediatric residents and participating in initiatives to improve care for children with special health care needs.
Cover art by Robin White
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Praying Mantis
Copyright © 2007 by Robin White
stained glass & brush drawing
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Abraxas “Obon—the dancers”
Cottonwood “Poem (Twenty-six…)”
The Greenfield Review “The Caterpillar,” “The Meaning of Meaning”
Hanging Loose “Finches,” “The Robin,” “The Warning,” “Obon—the dance,” and “—the dress,” “Junrei,” “Song,” “Anyone for the Franco-Benoni?,” “Poem (This February...),” “Fog,” “Tonight,” “9/28/03,” “Utah Jazz,” “Told to Niels Lauritsen by Alexie Shirov Over a Keg in Seville,” “Variations on a Theme”
Loop “The Kinglet,” “Documentary,” “Mantis,” “Toward Winter,” “Passage”
Parting Gifts “Racking,” “From Utah to Toyama—1920,” “At the Edge of the World,” “For Keats,” “At a Parking Terrace,” “Poem (As We Age…)”
The Patterson Literary Review “Marriage”
Some poems have been revised since appearing in journals.