Robert A.B. Sawyer — Poet & Copywriter
You have used up the years and they have used you / And still, and still, you have not written the poem.
Mine is a career that has been described as: Haphazard but not indiscriminate.
I am agnostic as to the media in which my words appear—advertising, poems or stories.
Once upon a time, working for advertising agencies and with graphic design firms, as well as directly for local, national and global corporations, I helped build brands, developed positionings and created communications, executed across various and sundry media. But that was then, today I write poetry.
Regarding Poetry.
I am a poet, the author of American Lullaby: Poems by Robert A.B. Sawyer. I was a winner of the 2003 Discovery/The Nation Poetry Competition. My poem, "How I Know She's Coming Home" was chosen by Natasha Trethewey, then Poet Laureate of the United States, to be included Meridian Best New Poets 2007. In 2017, I was invited to read at the Festival Internacional de Poesía en el Caribe, PoeMaRío, in Barranquilla, Colombia. I write most nights between 11:00 PM and 2:00 AM.
Seduction is not simply a strategy for conquest; it is the form taken by an inescapable reversibility — that of the feminine — in a world of masculine production.
Beauty is the most tender point of cruelty.
We have geared the machines and locked all / Together into interdependence; we have built the great cities; now / There is no escape.