This collection of poems circles around and around the place of the individual in relation to others. Using prose poems to suggest narrative logic, THE ORPHAN AND ITS RELATIONS bridges,\" as Robert Creeley said of Robinson's work, \"between the physically given world and that other we gloss with words, yet apprehend insistently as the defining presence of our lives themselves.\" This collection of poems circles around and around the place of the individual in relation to others. Using prose poems to suggest narrative logic, THE ORPHAN AND ITS RELATIONS \"bridges,\" as Robert Creeley said of Robinson's work, \"between the physically given world and that other we gloss with words, yet apprehend insistently as the defining presence of our lives themselves.\" \""Elizabeth Robinson is the author of several books of poetry, including Apprehend, the 2003 winner of the Fence Modern Poets Prize. She was educated at Bard College, Brown University, and Pacific School of Religion. Robinson has been a winner of the National Poetry Series and is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, 2008 Grants to Artists Award. She lives in Boulder, Colorado and teaches at Naropa University. | The Orphan & Its Relations, Paperback | Indigo Chapters