Alms for Oblivion is divided between a retrospective look at Americans abroad in summer study at Oxford and a glance back at films and popular icons of the Twentieth Century.

Robert E. Wood teaches in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. He attended The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and earned a BS and MS in Mathematics. Subsequently he received a MA in English from Long Island University and a PhD in English from the University of Virginia.
Specializing in Renaissance Studies and Cinema, Wood has published film studies that include essays on Fosse, DePalma, and Verhoeven, as well as The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He is also the author of Some Necessary Questions of the Play, a study of Hamlet published by Bucknell University Press.
Wood's poetry has appeared in such journals as Southern Humanities Review, South Carolina Review, Quiddity, Blue Fifth Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Poets and Artists, and Prairie Schooner. Earlier chapbooks, Gorizia Notebook and Sleight of Hand, were published by Finishing Line Press. His book of ekphrastic poetry, The Awkward Poses of Others, published by WordTech, was awarded Author of the Year in Poetry by the Georgia Writers Association An anthology On Occasion: Four Poets, One Year (Poetry Atlanta Press) contains his work together with that of fellow writers Karen Head, Blake Leland, and JC Reilly.
Robert and his wife Carolyn live in Roswell, Georgia.