Mass for Shut-Ins

By Todd Robinson

"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."--Terese Svoboda, author of Professor Harriman's Steam Air-Ship

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935218484
• ISBN13: 9781935218487
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Backwaters Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"