Robinson Alone
The Nebraska-born poet, painter, critic, and musician Weldon Kees traced a brief, bright path through midcentury America before vanishing in 1955, an apparent suicide. Among the poems he left behind are a particularly unsettling four that feature the mysterious Robinson: both a prototypical member of the smart set — masking his desperation with urbane savoir-faire — and an alter ego for the troubled Kees himself.
In ROBINSON ALONE, Kathleen Rooney performs a bold act of literary mediumship, conjuring Kees through his borrowed character to sketch his restless journey across locales and milieus — New York, San Francisco, the highways between — and to evoke his ambitions, his frustrations, and his skewed humor. The product of a decade-long engagement with Kees and his work, this novel in poems is not only a portrait of an under-appreciated genius and his era, but also a beam flashed into haunted boiler-rooms that still fire the American spirit, rooms where energy and optimism are burnt down to ash.
- Author
- Kathleen Rooney
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 132
- Publisher
- Gold Wake Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780983700142
- Genres
- poetry, fiction
- Release date
- 2012
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