Perpendicular As I

About the Book

"As one re-reads Marjorie's poems, which have airy beginnings usually in breath, voice, intimation, they grow increasingly concrete until situations, relationships, and feelings are palpable and deeply moving."
-A.R. Ammons

"She returns again and again to the ways body becomes landscape and landscape becomes body, internal and external repeatedly merging with one another."
-Andrew Hudgins

"What a range of richness We are left with a sense of uprightness and aspiration, a memorable voice, and of our own worlds, and selves surprised, deepened and lifted toward a larger meaning."
-Robert Morgan

"The Poems do indeed stand up straight and demand notice beautiful signposts for her readers, so that we may draw near and follow, and make some confident sense of the mysterious maze in there."
-Leon Stokesbury (contest judge)

About the Author

A professor of English at Lock Haven University and recipient of Cornell University?s Chasen Award and Sage Graduate Fellowship in Poetry, Marjorie Maddox has also published six chapbooks and over 250 poems, stories, and essays in journals and anthologies. Her numerous honors include the 2000 Paumanok Poetry Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, Seattle Review?s Bentley Prize for Poetry, a Breadloaf Scholarship, three Pushcart Prize nominations, and a runner-up for the Brittingham and Pollak Prizes.