Robinson\'s ambition in Rumor is enormous--to understand the problem of violence, to understand how power subjugates bodies and souls and turns them to use.
Through brooding, bloody, clearwater analysis, through delicate, brutally uncertain self-questioning, R.
Yet language\'s instability allows Robinson to turn it on itself to question categories such as gender.
In the world these poems inhabit, language itself is a violent power tool, a buzzsaw, precise, ruthless, and often wrong.
Robinson\'s ambition in Rumor is enormous--to understand the problem of violence, to understand how power subjugates bodies and souls and turns them to use