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Oneiromance | Kathleen Rooney

Switchback Books is all female poetry all the time. Rather than focusing on small, easily produced chapbooks, Switchback puts a lot of effort (and money) into the design of their books, and their volumes tend to be a bit larger than chapbooks. Their books are fantastic just to hold, let alone read. Here’s a description of this title from their website:

“Oneiromance (an epithalamion) gives the marriage poem a case of vertigo, displacing while embracing the panoply of possibility when two people attempt to forge a life together. Kathleen Rooney creates a dream-state with fluid borders and a surreal set of laws that allow her to question inherited wisdom and perception, all the while converging on the altar from numerous (occasionally, numinous) angles. The romance persists between the narrator and the beloved—and crucially, between the author and language’s opportunities to address the nuances and edges of commitment deemed inexplicable. These poems contain deep doubt and true sentiment, providing that pleasure-giving union of provocation and renewal.”

Publisher Switchback Books
Date Published October 10, 2008
ISBN # 978-0978617233
Number of Pages 59
Original Language English
Purchase @ http://www.switchbackbooks.com/oneiromance.html
Author's Site http://www.kathleenrooney.com/

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