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Poetry. Winner of the 2007 Gatewood Prize, Kathleen Rooney's ONEIROMANCE (AN EPITHALAMION) explores the absurdity and divinity of the marriage ceremony through a dizzying dream sequence with playful verse that skillfully blends call and response with Shakespearean odes, romance and cynicism, story-telling and wordplay. Patty Seyburn proclaims: "These poems contain deep doubt and true sentiment, providing that pleasure-giving union of provocation and renewal." Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press and the author of Reading with Oprah: The Book Club That Changed America (University of Arkansas, 2005).
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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.
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For Kathleen Rooney a wedding is a script, and the ceremony takes place in at least six genres: cartoon, western, thriller, soap opera, documentary, and sitcom. Oneiromance (an epithalamion) is one long delirious "homage to the glorious / states of our unions," which are all the more glorious since "no one can explain the state that we're in." --From Christian Hawkey
Kathleen Rooney's beautifully structured epithalamion is saturated with nuptial terror: the music and friction, zeal and unease, absurdity and profundity of marriage. Oneiromance (an epithalamion) parodies and feasts upon the vain excesses of contemporary wedding culture, but there's tenderness and devotion here, too a sweetness that's saucy rather than cloying: "Her breasts seem to him lovely as mud- / daubed birds' nests." I'm thrilled by a sensibility so acerbic, funny, sad, sardonic, insouciant, salty, and bittersweet, by poems so rich with slippage, misgiving, loss, and wit. Rooney's work is animated by a dexterous, inventive intelligence and a fearless imagination: "those pearls / on your bodice are really your baby teeth?" Her poems fibrillate with fine surprises; their originality and edge are stunning. Like "a book in sandpaper" that could "destroy everything else on the shelves," Oneiromance (an epithalamion) is scary good, wicked good, and Kathleen Rooney is surely one of the most brilliant poets of her generation, a discovery. Her linguistic powers provoke and awaken the page. --From Alice Fulton
For Kathleen Rooney a wedding is a script, and the ceremony takes place in at least six genres: cartoon, western, thriller, soap opera, documentary, and sitcom. Oneiromance (an epithalamion) is one long delirious "homage to the glorious / states of our unions," which are all the more glorious since "no one can explain the state that we're in." --From Christian Hawkey
Kathleen Rooney's beautifully structured epithalamion is saturated with nuptial terror: the music and friction, zeal and unease, absurdity and profundity of marriage. Oneiromance (an epithalamion) parodies and feasts upon the vain excesses of contemporary wedding culture, but there's tenderness and devotion here, too a sweetness that's saucy rather than cloying: "Her breasts seem to him lovely as mud- / daubed birds' nests." I'm thrilled by a sensibility so acerbic, funny, sad, sardonic, insouciant, salty, and bittersweet, by poems so rich with slippage, misgiving, loss, and wit. Rooney's work is animated by a dexterous, inventive intelligence and a fearless imagination: "those pearls / on your bodice are really your baby teeth?" Her poems fibrillate with fine surprises; their originality and edge are stunning. Like "a book in sandpaper" that could "destroy everything else on the shelves," Oneiromance (an epithalamion) is scary good, wicked good, and Kathleen Rooney is surely one of the most brilliant poets of her generation, a discovery. Her linguistic powers provoke and awaken the page. --From Alice Fulton
For Kathleen Rooney a wedding is a script, and the ceremony takes place in at least six genres: cartoon, western, thriller, soap opera, documentary, and sitcom. Oneiromance (an epithalamion) is one long delirious "homage to the glorious / states of our unions," which are all the more glorious since "no one can explain the state that we're in." --From Christian Hawkey
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- PublisherSwitchback Books
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0978617231
- ISBN 13 9780978617233
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages59
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