Mebane Robertson

Mebane Robertson spent his formative years in Richmond, Virginia, and New Orleans, Louisiana. A graduate of The College of William & Mary and Long Island University, he resides in New York where he has received his Ph.D. in English literature at Fordham University. His poems have been widely published in both print and online publications, including The Beloit Poetry Journal, Blue Unicorn, Guernica, The Journal, The Lyric, Mudfish, Poetalk, The Kitchen Poet, and many more. He has recorded eleven CDs to date and plays many venues in New York City.

NEW from Mebane Robertson - An American Unconscious (Black Widow Press 2016)

An American Unconscious is a startling transition, having first been exposed to Mebane's writing in Signal From Draco, you
can clearly tell that this transition although turbulent and candid at times, is indeed a progression of an honest original voice.
The cadence lets you in and much like current cloud software, this immerses you into the airy redoubles, the soothing breeze
of a wall flower that controls in settings and frank interactions between characters, ideas, prosaic moments clearly captured
in ones memory.
An American Unconscious is a volume of poetry that gets you, gets into you, gets under your skin without effort.
Thus the breezy control of piece to pieces that under a far less deft hand would fall stories down, this does not. It embraces
the world of our current, doesn't ignore, or sideshow, but clearly looks for a healthy reader to devout, or even the sickest
of the sick. This is another great book from the people at Black Widow Press, and a book I feel comfortable and cool with
as I turn the pages in the subway, garner that special look from a beautiful girl, and its that same experience inside and out,
An America Unconscious is Mebane Robertson truly showing his craft, a simple touch to some of the most extraordinary small victories
of page.