Bøger af Marilyn McCabe

Inspired by science, a gritty and profound engagement with nature, and our fleeting fabrications on this planet, McCabe generates a durable delicacy that will astonish. Says Ilya Kaminsky, "McCabe, knows that darkness doesn't come onward but we are 'falling toward it, and sometimes/it is beautiful, framed in flame.' She is a kind of poet who knows that words, like paper cranes, may carry us, 'feather and bone.' When I read this, I think of Mahmoud Darwish who believed that clarity is the original mystery. In McCabe's clarities, too, lie her deepest surprises, and just like a fisherman in one of her poems, she relies 'on the tacit consonance of ice.' And her music! There is so much astonishment in her syntax, in tonalities. Kathleen Graber adds, "In a collection that honors both the natural and the man-made world, the production of both the field and the artist, the poet asserts that only change is certain. Just as the mind misremembers, clouds, rivers, flesh, and even rocks, dissolve with time. A drop of blood from a small cut is a startling reminder that even the physical body is flowing. Yet in a world in which all matter is destined for ruin, we find a speaker who again and again not only holds the elusive present in her fierce attention but also praises the very processes that, while ushering new fruit from the trees, erase all that has been, including the familiar self."

Poetry. The dark and bright of what it means to be human: McCabe examines this remorselessly, tenderly, and with a grain of "Sel," a thread of humor. PERPETUAL MOTION investigates who we are in a voice influenced by French poetry and painting, jazz, science, anthropology, and the wilderness itself. Says judge Gray Jacobik, "Her worldview--one of absolute unity fraught with infinite divisions, of great and ceaseless morphing--informs and shapes the sheer inventiveness, the wit, the passion of these lines. These are poems of moral complexity as well...wherein the poet considers the effects of hatred, rage, violence." Carol Frost adds, "With a different kind of loveliness...McCabe describes the things of this world. Popular culture, the theory of relativity, history, Magritte, higher math, religions, and philosophy are lenses to help us see, and McCabe's language attunes us to what for others is beyond hearing."

Being Many Seeds is an elegant and unique meditation in poetry. The poems are presented in several forms: their original forms and more concise forms as poems of erasure. In addition, the poems are complemented at the bottom of each page with a consideration of the ideas of the Jesuit priest and philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, so that a dialogue results. Innovative and lyrical, this collection won the 2020 Grayson Books Chapbook Contest. It is not to be missed.

This volume explains a new theory of grief and loss that is designed to represent the realities not addressed in current conventional views of grief.