Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 49

Friday, December 2, 1994 3D Reno Gazette-Journal Poet HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES OK 11 looks easy, Kirk making art out of his life so naturally do the poems seem to arise from circumstances." Post BIN Fox 1 1988: Robert Laxall. Walter Van Tilburq Clark. 1 1989: Sessions Wheeler; Joanne de Longchamps. 1 1990: Hart Wegner; Virginia Coffman; Charlton Laird. 1 1991 Wilbur Shepperon; Will James.

1 1992: A. Wilber Stevens; Lucius Beebe. 1 1993: Stephen N.Liu; Sarah Winnemucca. (D 0 From page 1 1) biwms Robertson in his deep, barrel voice. When you look at his resume which includes 1 7 published poetry books, poetry inclusions in numerous anthologies and a 1 98 1 Governor's Arts Award you're impressed.

The 48-ycar-old poet has been busy. Robertson, who's lived in Fallon for 1 8 vcars a resident now';) is a contemporary poet. His spare poetry is free verse, not iambic pentameter. The titles of his books tell you where he's coming from: "Driving to Vegas" 1 989); "West Nevada Waltz" (198 1); "High Fallon Southern Comfort" (1 980); "Coffee, Dust Devils Old Rodeo Bulls" (1 979). Add to those "Music, A Suite 1 3 Songs" and "Desert Saudade" which are scheduled for publication in the next few months.

Robertson's poetry covers lots of territory. The exterior and interior landscapes are drawn from his youthful years of wandering in the West to his present life now rooted in northern Nevada. magazine of the Nevada State Council on the Arts. Lahontan Valley News columnist. Past program director at NSCA.

Mixed-media constructivist artist who's had numerous solo and selected group exhibitions in Nevada and California. Robertson, the fourth poet to be inducted in the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, was a clear winner for the award, said Bob Blesse, a member of the selection committee. "Despite his young age, Kirk has produced an outstanding amount of work of high quality," he said. "When we looked at the other candidates, there was really little doubt." "It looks easy, Kirk making art out of his life so naturally do the poems seem to arise from circumstances," notes his friend and fellow poet Bill Fox in a Friends of the Library newsletter. "But it's not easy, and hardly inevitable." But to pigeonhole Robertson as only a poet would be like saying Michaelangclo was only a ceiling painter.

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