Mass for Shut-Ins - Softcover

Robinson, Todd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935218484 ISBN 13: 9781935218487

Publisher: THE BACKWATERS PRESS, 2018

Synopsis

"Todd Robinson has written such tender love poems in MASS FOR SHUT-INS that you might read them to your significant other and hope for success—a veritable Neruda of Nebraska. In 'Skin,' the speaker is 'a soft / ravening / hominid torched / by rosewater/ & coconut oil.' The poems are no less fervent toward the old sod, beautifully evoking the contemporary Midwest. He feels 'the jolt of coal trains / through the gut of steaming America.' A splendid debut."—Therese Svoboda

About this title

About the Author:

Born and educated on the concrete banks of the Missouri River in Omaha, Nebraska, Todd Robinson has spent nine months of every year of his conscious life in a classroom because nothing frees and inspires him quite like learning does. A proud graduate of Ralston Public Schools, Creighton University, and the University of Nebraska- Lincoln,he has taught college-level writing for twenty years, most of them at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. He has published work in such journals as Sugar House Review, Prairie Schooner, The Cortland Review, Margie, and Chiron Review, among many others. His first book of poems, Note at Heart Rock, was published by Main Street Rag in 2012. He lives in a crumbling manse with his wife, Cheryle, who left her native Sandhills to go to college.

Review:

"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 (David Z. Drees WSC Press)

About this edition

• Publisher: THE BACKWATERS PRESS
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1935218484
• ISBN 13: 9781935218487
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88