Product Description These "feral elegies," spacious, experimental and abstract, spark and inflame language. They splinter, oxygenate. Alsop's kindling: voices, mineral in absence. The poems delve into collaborations invented in life and life beyond. Through metaphor, the collection evocatively sculpts a new metaphysics-thumbed in ash, cinder's smudge, as embers glow from grief's breath. Here, a prophetic moon emerges in cyclical écriture féminine, this series of meditations combust, twine unspoken cords, and pause only in arcs of imagination as remedy. About the Author Maureen Alsop, Ph.D., is the author of Mirror Inside Coffin; Later, Knives & Trees; Mantic, Apparition Wren (also a Spanish edition, Reyezuelo Aparición, translated by Mario Domínguez Parra); and chapbooks including Luminal Equation, the dream and the dream you spoke, 12 Greatest Hits, Nightingale Habit, and Origin of Stone). She is the winner of the Tony Quagliano International Poetry Award through the Hawaii Council for the Humanities, Harpur Palate's Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry, and The Bitter Oleander's Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award. Her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes on several occasions. Poems, book reviews, essays, and visual poetics have appeared in Memorious, The Laurel Review, Blackbird, DIAGRAM, The Kenyoun Review, AGNI, Verse Daily, Rain Taxi, Mantis, Anomaly, Your Impossible Voice, The Continental Review, and Drunken Boat, Tupelo Quarterly, The Journal of Compressed Arts. The Riverside Art Museum and Umbrella Studio have been venues for her work. Translations of La Pasajera /The Passenger by Juana de Ibarbourou (Uruguay, 1892-1979) and poetry of Mario Domínguez Parra have appeared in Box Car Review and Poetry Salzburg Review. She teaches online with the Poetry Barn. She is a Book Review Editor and Associate Poetry Editor at Poemeleion, holds an MFA from Vermont College

Pyre

Literature & Fiction

Alsop, Maureen

Poetry

What Books Press

Poetry. Maureen Alsop follows Apparition Wren with MANTIC, a poetry book that underscores the art of prediction as a means for rectifying disquiet—when one is willing. You will be made to look toward spine-white shores, salt lakes at the empire's boundary. You will hear voices dwelling within the other voice. You will inhabit the shades turning in the grass at the doorway, sun-baked origins, amaurosis before language. You will dream of the past as a form of begging, the future as your face pressed between the landscape's burnished pages. You will not lie still.

Mantic

Augury Books

Love is the elixir which heals. Love offers dignity and connection and allows room for the most potent and challenging of reparations: forgiveness. Like a double-exposed photograph, the language in Arbor Vitae, "the tree of life," offers a delicate ribboning of shifting perspectives. The narration is activated as a witness, as consciousness is observed, and trespasses "a bare view" of a multilayered landscape. Here, a pensive topography of solitude and loss unfolds. This book-length pastoral poem seeks accountability and compassion for institutional and political trauma. Recent and historic human rights abuses merge to encompass a devastation that imprints the collective psyche. The scenery is the source, as Whitman writes, "the smallest sprout¿ goes onward and outward, nothing collapses"-Arbor Vitae, in a dream state, from the shores of Guantanamo to the unfiltered "sun sun-burnished pines" of the multi-continental holocaust, seeks hope, seeks language as a branch root or a sapling that might break through the asphalt. Over amends for the disgrace for of human rights abuses -voices merge in a textural elegiac for what might lift upward-unfurling leaves, harnessed, toward that one push into a great light.

Arbor Vitae

Nauset Press

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