Romey\'s Order is an indelible sequence of poems voiced by an invented (and inventive) boy-speaker called Romey, set alongside a river in the South Carolina lowcountry. As the word-furious eye and voice of these poems, Romey urgently records--and tries to order--the objects, inscape, injuries, and idiom of his \"blood-home\" and childhood world. Sounding out the nerves and nodes of language to transform \"every burn-mark and blemish,\" to \"bind our river-wrack and leavings,\" Romey seeks to forge finally (if even for a moment) a chord in which he might live. Intently visceral, aural, oral, Atsuro Riley\'s poems bristle with musical and imaginative pleasures, with story-telling and picture-making of a new and wholly unexpected kind.