Rob's Word Shop by Robert Fitterman Nick Laird ‘I had tears in my

‘I had tears in my eyes reading some of these poems

A journal of sound

Many of the poems in this collection explore attempts to repair severed connections

of growing into oneself

but much of it is concerned with the experience of particularity

Rob's Word Shop by Robert Fitterman Nick Laird ‘I had tears in myOn Wednesday, May 5th, 2010, I opened Robs Word Shop, a storefront shop where individual letters and words were sold. My shop location was 308 Bowery (the south window at the Bowery Poetry Club), and my hours of operation were Tuesday through Thursday 11: 00AM2: 00PM, from May 5 through May 27. The words and letters were either chosen by the individual customers or arrived at with my assistance. I would then hand write or print the letter, word, or