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After Robinson Has Gone

Kathleen Rooney

4.5/5 ( ratings)

After Robinson Has Gone is a powerful collection of poems based on the life and mysterious
disappearance of poet Weldon Kees. It is the reinvention of the treasure hunt - the poems split up
and search for their influence in the zoos and roofdecks and theaters. The map is in the form of
tattered books on the subway and looseleaf poems blowing from the Golden Gate in faint whispers:
Once the dog stops barking, we'll "hear the news at ten, which will be shocking, moderately." [WK]

"Why this appeal? It doesn't / feel like it belongs to him. // Still, he'd like to keep it, lock /
it up in a locket like a lock // of hair where it won't cause / worry. Sometimes he thinks //
of himself, dark as a pocket, //scattered to the wind." fr. "After The Holiday"

5" x 8.5" Chapbook. Each unique cover is made from an old movie poster.
Metal-specked endpapers.Book guts printed on high quality 24lb antique laid paper in an edition of 100.
Each book is handmade and unique from the next.

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Greying Ghost Press

Release: February 01, 2011

After Robinson Has Gone

Kathleen Rooney

4.5/5 ( ratings)

After Robinson Has Gone is a powerful collection of poems based on the life and mysterious
disappearance of poet Weldon Kees. It is the reinvention of the treasure hunt - the poems split up
and search for their influence in the zoos and roofdecks and theaters. The map is in the form of
tattered books on the subway and looseleaf poems blowing from the Golden Gate in faint whispers:
Once the dog stops barking, we'll "hear the news at ten, which will be shocking, moderately." [WK]

"Why this appeal? It doesn't / feel like it belongs to him. // Still, he'd like to keep it, lock /
it up in a locket like a lock // of hair where it won't cause / worry. Sometimes he thinks //
of himself, dark as a pocket, //scattered to the wind." fr. "After The Holiday"

5" x 8.5" Chapbook. Each unique cover is made from an old movie poster.
Metal-specked endpapers.Book guts printed on high quality 24lb antique laid paper in an edition of 100.
Each book is handmade and unique from the next.

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Greying Ghost Press

Release: February 01, 2011

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