"Frank O'Hara said that poetry should be at least as interesting as the movies, and in The Clearing Barrel, Anthony Roberts trains a cinematic eye on all his subjects" -Mark Bibbins, Lambda Award winning Poet and author of 13th Balloon and They Don't Kill You Because They're Hungry, They Kill You Because They're Full"This collection conducts a powerful interrogation into the ways we are and are not free."-Laurie Sheck, Poet and Author of the New York Times Bestseller, A Monster's Notes, Isle of the Mad: A Novel, and The Willow Grove "These poems reveal a wisdom outside of time and place."-Sheema Kalbasi, Poet, Filmmaker, Human Rights Activist, and Author of Echoes in Exile, The Poetry of Iranian Women, and Seven Valleys of Love: A Bilingual Anthology of Women Poets from Middle Ages Persia to Present Day IranIntroduction by Leslie Gray Streeter bestselling author of Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like 'Journey' in the Title.