Description
Poetry. Winner of the 2007 Gatewood Prize, Kathleen Rooney's ONEIROMANCE (AN EPITHALAMION) explores the absurdity and divinity of the marriage ceremony through a dizzying dream sequence with playful verse that skillfully blends call and response with Shakespearean odes, romance and cynicism, story-telling and wordplay.
"For Kathleen Rooney a wedding is a script, and the ceremony takes place in at least six genres: cartoon, western, thriller, soap opera, documentary, and sitcom. ONEIROMANCE is one long delirious 'homage to the glorious / states of our unions,' which are all the more glorious since 'no one can explain the state that we're in.'"—Christian Hawkey
"ONEIROMANCE puts the overt back in verse. Extravagant in sweep and pathos, the beauty of these poems soars like a wedding cake for astronauts. Kathleen Rooney is a poet too rich to read at one sitting, but I think any reader will enjoy extending the honeymoon they take with this book. I wish I could sufficiently praise its merits in kind, be a match for its flights and profundities."—Bill Knott
Author Bio
A founding editor of Rose Metal Press and a founding member of Poems While You Wait, Kathleen Rooney is the author of two novels: THE LISTENING ROOM (Spork Press, 2020) and Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (St. Martin's Press, 2017). With Eric Plattner, she is the co-editor of Rene Magritte: Selected Writings (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). Married to the writer, Martin Seay, she lives in Chicago and teaches at DePaul University.
Author City: CHICAGO, IL USA