The Lillian Trilogy
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (869 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0692377069 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 212 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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The uncanny is too engrained in her sensibility. She can put a chill into the most common rhyme. But what does she do? Do with words. * Conjuring My Leafy Muse (Book 2) nominated for 2015 Poets' Prize* Girlie Calendar (Book 3) selected for 2016 ALA Over the Rainbow List “A poet can survive anything but a misprint,” wrote Oscar Wilde, flippantly intimating that poets are made half-mad by a world of trouble. Patrick Lewis This is my kind of a poet. She writes of real things, real people, always musically. I’m talking about the modern rules, the new respectability, the advice given in poetry workshops by legions of successful poets whom no one reads. ‘She speaks,’ as Larkin said of the beautiful and wistful and utterly different Stevie Smith, ‘with the authority of sadness.’ She also speak
Samantha Pious said You leave me rootless. Mary Meriam is the poetic daughter of Stevie Smith and Renée Vivien. Like Smith, she writes in a plain style defined by strength of syntax rather than beauty of embellishment. Like Vivien, she is unafraid of flowers. Her poetry, sing-song in cadence, melds the deceptive simplicity of English and Anglophone nursery-rhymes with the luxury and lustfulness of French Symbolism during the Belle Époque. My favorite . Keats was right! Rick Mullin I am a longtime reader of Mary Meriam’s poetry, and I am very happy to have so much of it in one place with The Lillian Trilogy. Meriam beautifully pulls of a compendium of her three collections, Word Hot, Conjuring My Leafy Muse, and Girlie Calendar, producing a book of real integrity and beauty. Meriam, the editor of Headmistress Press and Lavender Review, which is described on its website as “dedicated to po. "unbound eros of lesbian love and internal awareness" according to Abe Louise. Meriam's voice reminds me of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, Marilyn Hacker, Joan Larkin, Edna St. Vincent Millay -- as does her choice to use formal poetics and verse structures to express a radical, unbound eros of lesbian love and internal awareness. These poems are sparkling, captivating, relational, pithy and complete. The book is made up of three collections, each necessary and prismatic to the others. Their accomplishmen
Mother Goose taunts the guilty mothers. She doesn't flinch at female eroticism, at emotional turmoil, at social upheaval, at the truth of human cruelty. But no gratuitous haranguing here: these are gut poems, deeply felt, yet adeptly and sensitively composed.--Autostraddle. Even the singsong breathes fire. She also doesn't flinch at rhyme, rhythm, formal constraint, or ancient forms of poetry and language