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by Mary Lou Buschi
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mary Lou Buschi, Eileen Cleary (Editor), Martha McCollough (Designed by)Publish date:2021-05-15Pages:76
Language:EnglishPublisher:Lily Poetry ReviewISBN-13:9781734786996ISBN-10:173478699XUPC:9781734786996Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Women AuthorsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.18 inchesWeight:0.2712Product ID:SCB68K4W4Y

Mary Lou Buschi's second collection, Paddock, is a poetic palindrome. Two lost girls attempt to connect by writing letters to "Dear," a mother figure. They also pass the time by telling one another stories that sometimes conjure spirts. Much like Vladimir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot, they wait. Paddock is best read in one gulp, shuttling between Greek tragedy and lyric ellipsis...a poetry of hope, desire, and despair as the girls refuse to let the story end. Girl 2, "Maybe the story has just begun." Here, you will find enter into a lyrical, natural world of image, color. Hear a chorus of sisters. Enter the forest and the sea and be changed,

Language:EnglishPublisher:Lily Poetry ReviewISBN-13:9781734786996ISBN-10:173478699XUPC:9781734786996Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Women AuthorsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.18 inchesWeight:0.2712Product ID:SCB68K4W4Y
Buschi, Mary Lou: - Mary Lou holds an MFA in poetry from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and a Master of Science in Urban Education from Mercy College. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals such as FIELD, Willow Springs, Indiana Review, Radar, Thrush, Tar River, Cream City, Pank, Rhino, The Laurel Review, among others. Mary Lou is the author of one earlier collection of poems, Awful Baby. She is also the author of three chapbooks. Mary Lou has received fellowships from The Santa Fe Writer's Conference, Vermont Studio Center, and The New York City Teaching Fellows. Currently, she is a special education teacher in the Bronx.Cleary, Eileen: - Editor Eileen Cleary is the author of 'Child ward of the Commonwealth' (Main Street Rag Press, 2019), which received an honorable mention for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize, and ' 2 a.m. with Keats' (forthcoming from Nixes Mate, 2020)Her poems have appeared in Sugar House Review, West Texas Literary Review, The American Journal of Poetry, JAMA, Right Hand Pointing and other journals. Cleary founded the Lily Poetry Review and Lily Poetry Review Books, and hosts/curates the Lily Poetry Salon.
Publisher: Lily Poetry Review

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Mary Lou Buschi, Eileen Cleary (Editor), Martha McCollough (Designed by)

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Mary Lou Buschi

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