Mass for Shut-Ins

by Todd Robinson

Overview

“These poems, in love with language and enthralled by various longings, will bemuse and beguile readers as they register the Peruvian heights and abyssal depths of a life lived without moderation. Mass for Shut-Ins is a lament for wounded love, a celebration of recovery, an elegy for innocence, and an ode to hope.” From the Author

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935218487
Publisher:	The Backwaters Press
Publication date:	08/10/2018
Pages:	88
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.21(d)

About the Author

Todd Robinson earned a B.A. and M.A. in English from Creighton University, and a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He teaches in the Writer's Workshop and the Thompson Learning Community at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. His work has appeared in The Cortland Review, Canopic Jar, and A Dozen Nothing.

Editorial Reviews

"Such a bounty of intelligence and pleasure packed inside here! These are deeply lovable love songs, odes to friends and lovers, the sound of crickets and grackles, BB guns and boozy evenings on the Plains. To me they manage to be cheerful even when they're heartbreaking. So here's to you, Mr. Robinson." ––Kurt Andersen, author of Fantasyland

"Todd Robinson is a poet doing his best to figure a life; doing it with a fair share of humor, but also seriously, honestly, as though he and the rest of us weren't in the throes of a new century already worn to a nub of "real work and sorrow." ––David Wyatt, author of Gathering Place

From the Publisher

"The poems in Todd Robinson’s Mass for Shut-Ins are simultaneously societal and intensely personal, gleaned through a lens of unifying solitariness, the sense that "We, anonymous cannon-fodder" share more than we've ever differed, our burden of impermanence both unique and unexceptional."—David Z. Drees, WSC Press

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