For You For You I Am Trilling These Songs Kathleen Rooney by Kathleen Rooney 9781582436838, 1582436835 instant download after payment.

Varied & original, the tales in For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs recount the perils of falling in love with the unlikeliest of people, of visiting the New York apartments of a vanished poet, and of touring an animal retirement home with her parents. Of getting a Brazilian wax, & of chauffeuring a U.S. senator around town. Of saying good–bye to a cousin who's joining a convent, & of trying to convince herself that she's not wasting her life. 

This is a book about love & longing, poetry & plagiarism, death & democracy, mountain floods & Midwestern cicadas. Here is a young woman struggling to find her place as an adult & a citizen in an America that rarely manages to live up to Whitman's dream of it. With this book, Rooney sings—yes, in fact, she trills—loud & clear.

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Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a nonprofit publisher of literary work in hybrid genres, as well as a founding member of Poems While You Wait, a collective of poets & their vintage typewriters who compose poetry on demand. Her most recent books include the novels Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk & Cher Ami & Major Whittlesey. Her poetry collection Where Are the Snows won the 2021 X. J. Kennedy Prize & was published by Texas Review Press in fall of 2022. She is a winner of the Ruth Lilly Prize from Poetry magazine & the Adam Morgan Literary Citizen Award from the Chicago Review of Books, & her criticism appears in the New York Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Brooklyn Rail, Chicago magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, & elsewhere. She lives in Chicago with her spouse, the writer Martin Seay, & teaches English & creative writing at DePaul University.