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Robinson Alone
A collection of Poetry by Kathleen Rooney
Subgenres:
- Mid-Century America,
- Urban,
- Literary Historical
This book is for you if you're into...
- Mid-century cityscapes filtered through poetic fragments
- Literary history reimagined in verse and erasure
- Characters wrestling with nostalgia and postwar uncertainty
Poetry. "Meet Robinson, the protagonist of Kathleen Rooney's brilliant novel-in-poems ROBINSON ALONE. Conjured up by Weldon Kees and set loose in an urban landscape, Robinson reflects and refracts mid-century American kitsch, optimism, and despair. 'What do you / think the post-war world will be like?' he asks, via Rooney's revisions and erasures of Kees' own letters. Lyrical and detailed, precise and ornate, Rooney's genre-bending text showcases an obsession with literary history. At once repulsed by Midwestern provincialism and fearful of urban excess, 'There's still as much of yesterday / as there is of tomorrow in all he does today.'"
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