Oneiromance: (an Epithalamion)

Kathleen Rooney

Switchback Books, 2008 - Epithalamia - 59 pages

"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." --Book Jacket.

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Contents

• Oneiromance: 1
• Dream no 1: 19
• 19: 34
• Scrapbook: 49

About the author

Kathleen Rooney is an editor of Rose Metal Press and the author of the nonfiction books Reading with Oprah and Live Nude Girl. With Elisa Gabbert, she is the author of the collaborative poetry collection That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness. Her memoir in stories, For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs is forthcoming from Counterpoint in 2010. She lives in Chicago and works in an office.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Oneiromance: (an Epithalamion)
• Author: Kathleen Rooney
• Publisher: Switchback Books, 2008
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jun 29, 2010
• ISBN: 0978617231, 9780978617233
• Length: 59 pages