Roguelike Poems
Roguelike Poems by Mathew Henderson, published by Anansi in 2020, is a poetry collection that delves into the intricate connections between video games, addiction, and family dynamics. This edition comprises 77 pages and is presented in English, offering readers a unique perspective on the themes of storytelling and emotional complexity through the lens of gaming culture.
In this collection, Henderson melds the language and logic of video games with personal narratives, particularly focusing on his relationship with his mother and her struggles with addiction. The poems explore the interplay between game mythology and family history, examining how the act of storytelling helps to make sense of life’s disparate events. Readers will find a rich exploration of themes such as addiction, repetition, and escapism, all woven into a narrative structure that reflects the psychological forces behind our creative impulses.
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Mathew Henderson explores with remarkable insight the unique logics of video games and addiction in his much-anticipated sophomore poetry collection.
Mathew Henderson’s Roguelike, the much-anticipated follow-up to his acclaimed 2012 debut The Lease, melds the unique online vocabulary, culture, and logic of video games with family and addiction narratives, specifically the poet’s relationship with his mother and her struggle with narcotics. The resulting poems are arresting and fresh, mining game mythology, fantasy, and family history, while exploring the rich connection between video gaming and notions of addiction, repetition, storytelling, and escapism.
Though the poems are largely narrative, ultimately Roguelike is less about stories themselves than it is about the psychological and emotional forces that define how and why we make them — how we’re all moved to shape the disparate and seemingly unconnected events of our lives into something meaningful, to make sense of the past and the present through storytelling.
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