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Mary Meriam
This is very strong, fearless stuff, beautiful, with the right degrees of both vulnerability and threat. - Rhina P. Espaillat
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* Nominated for the Poets’ Prize Mary Meriam is a rare and original poet. This is a dazzling book, a fusion of anguish and wit and song, written in clear…
*Selected for the Best Books List for June 2014 by Grace Cavalieri of the Washington Independent Review of Books The editor travelled for several decades throughout the United Kingdom, Canada…
Any art from a marginalized group is first dismissed as necessarily trivial or lesser because it doesn’t value the same ideals as the mainstream. It is only through iteration and…
* 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…
Amy Lowell’s contemporaries, writing at a time when lesbians were invisible, described her as an old maid. But as Lillian Faderman argues, Lowell wrote some of the most remarkable, barely…
In ambitious and dextrous poems employing a variety of formal guises, Mary Meriam creates for us an impressionistic yet incisive vision of love and loss in her powerful new collection…
* Selected for the 2016 American Library Association Over the Rainbow List Song is mysterious. It seems to arise when the separation between sophistication and simplicity has been submerged in…
In this collection, filled with linguistic surprises and narrative leaps, Meriam upends the charm, ghazal, pantoum and sonnet to deliver poems of extraordinary originality. The erotic and a passionate connection…
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A poet versed in rhyme and meter creates a book that charmed this reader!-Lesl a Newman, author of Heather Has Two Mommies Mary Meriam’s Nuts in Nutland, delightfully illustrated…
