Persephone Heads for the Gate - Paperback
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Persephone Heads for the Gate
The tender attention with which Merrill Douglas holds the things of this world is breathtaking: "small brown birds/going chink, chink like coins in the ivy," "sun licks billows/of garlicky lamb smoke/that roll above street fair earrings," a toasted marshmallow that "flakes on my tongue with the taste of charred news," or "the sound my grown body releases/now when I unfasten my bra." It is a deep...
Merrill Oliver Douglas is the author of the poetry chapbook Parking Meters into Mermaids (Finishing Line Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in Baltimore Review, Barrow Street, Tar River Poetry, Stone Canoe, Little Patuxent Review and Whale Road Review, among other journals. Raised in New York City, she holds a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.A. in English from...
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