{"product_id":"o-western-wind","title":"O Western Wind","description":"\u003ch3\u003eKathleen Rooney\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the New Measure Poetry Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelected by Rodney Jones\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"..\/pages\/free-verse-editions\"\u003eFree Verse Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e Edited by Jon Thompson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRelease Date: 5 January 2027.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInformation and Pricing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e978-1-64317-644-4 (paperback, $16.95); 978-1-64317-645-1 (PDF, $9.95); 978-1-64317-646-8 (EPUB, $9.95). © 2027 by Parlor Press, 80 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBookstores\u003c\/strong\u003e: Order by mail or phone. \u003ca href=\"..\/pages\/order-books-4\"\u003eSee our \"Sales and Ordering Page\" for details.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- Elfsight PDF Embed | O Western Wind --\u003e\n\u003cscript src=\"https:\/\/elfsightcdn.com\/platform.js\" async\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"elfsight-app-1052d288-bff4-443a-a804-0fe7e7b78ae8\" data-elfsight-app-lazy\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout \u003cem\u003eO Western Wind\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhere better to find freedom than within constraint? Such is the idea behind \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eO Western Wind\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the wild, witty, and winsome product of Kathleen Rooney’s taking one word per day from the anonymous sixteenth-century poem “Westron Wynde” and writing a brand-new poem for each of them. A love of language and laughter animates each piece, blended with a melancholy awareness of our living in an era of monstrous grief and widespread loss: of democracy, of plants, of animals, and of trust, but never of hope. Motivated by joy and curiosity but cut with the sadness of the world, these poems demand your reflection and provoke your amusement. We will never know the identity of that long-ago poem’s author, but Rooney invites us to adore them and their ineffable small rain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eO Western Wind\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Among its constant, capricious, and nearly arbitrary discoveries works an unswerving intellect committed to the pleasures of thinking freely. It left me after a number of readings saying, again and again, HURRAH!” —\u003cstrong\u003eRodney Jones\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eElegy for the Southern Drawl \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand Judge, New Measure Poetry Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e“I love the architecture of this book, which manages to be in turns whimsical and sorrowful, etymological and intimate, and to reach back through time toward a sixteenth-century, unattributed poem while remaining contemporary in voice, subject, and form. The book becomes a portrait of a mind in motion, in a meditative collaboration, chronologically, with every single word in the poem. ‘O’ is an anaphoric litany that ranges from playfulness to mortality. Other words, like ‘Western,’ beg for scene-making. ‘When’ becomes an incremental meditation on time. I experience a great tenderness here toward the deep roots of poetry itself, and anonymity, and every word in its singularity, like holding an egg, or an O, in my hand.” —\u003cstrong\u003eDiane Seuss\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003efrank: sonnets\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eModern Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e“O, gloriously Nude Formalist mishmash of philosophy, lyric utterance,\u003cbr\u003epataquerical slapstick, and ventriloquized rapture\u003cbr\u003eO, fractured fairy tales\u003cbr\u003eO, nonstop aphorism machine\u003cbr\u003eO, words tripping on tongue’s eye\u003cbr\u003eO, ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor\u003cbr\u003eO, sage advice for rosemary and time\u003cbr\u003eO, ethics without truth and truth without ethics\u003cbr\u003eO, winds that wind way wound whither, hither, and nigh\u003cbr\u003eThis isn’t the end, it’s the in-between\u003cbr\u003e‘O, how I hate accepting things I cannot change!’” —\u003cstrong\u003eCharles Bernstein\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays and Comedies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eO Western Wind\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a vivid meditation on the ephemeral beauty of being. Inspired by the 16th-century poem “Westron Wynde,” Rooney’s witty and observant speaker transforms each word of the original into “a glissando of rain [giving] way to the pecking beaks of pizzicato violins.” By way of humor and dreamlike, associative leaps, Rooney invites us to the place where love, nature, and human yearning meet across centuries. This is fresh, energizing work from one of our keenest voices.” —\u003cstrong\u003eKiki Petrosino\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePerfect Italian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0050\/3028\/1251\/files\/Rooney_AuthorPhoto_160x160.png?v=1794569871\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKathleen Rooney\u003c\/strong\u003e is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a nonprofit publisher of literary work in hybrid genres, and a founding member of Poems While You Wait, a team of poets and their typewriters who compose commissioned poetry on demand. Her fifth novel, \u003cem\u003eMan Overboard!\u003c\/em\u003e (Gallery Books) came out in 2026, and her poetry collection \u003cem\u003eWhere Are the Snows\u003c\/em\u003e (Texas Review Press) won the XJ Kennedy Prize in 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotograph of the author by Beth Rooney. Used by permission.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rooney","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44223941378083,"sku":"978-1-64317-644-4","price":1700.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true},{"title":"PDF","offer_id":44223941410851,"sku":"978-1-64317-645-1","price":1000.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true},{"title":"EPUB","offer_id":44223941443619,"sku":"978-1-64317-646-8","price":1000.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0050\/3028\/1251\/files\/OWesternWind.jpg?v=1794570224","url":"https:\/\/parlorpress.com\/en-in\/products\/o-western-wind","provider":"Parlor Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}