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books:

In the Blue Pharmacy: Essays on Poetry and Other Transformations
Marianne Boruch

Trinity University Press, 2005

In these thoughtful, richly personal essays, Marianne Boruch takes a fresh view on old poets, considering such questions as how the atomic bomb changed William Carlos Williams's poetry and how Edison's listening, through his famous deafness, informs our sense of poetics. Other essays explore how the car's danger and solitude helps us understand American poetry, and how Dvorak and Whitman shared darker things than their curious love for trains. ...

A Stick That Breaks And Breaks

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Marianne Boruch

Oberlin College Press, 1997

Beautiful day in the life poetry.
Marianne Boruch speaks to us all in her poetry. There is something real and true in her words that cannot be described other than phenomenal.

Moss Burning
Marianne Boruch

Oberlin College Press, 1993

Marianne Boruch is one of the most original and compelling poets of her generation. Her remarkable third collection is astonishing in its brave intelligence, its deadpan humor, its highly charged, vital music. Through her investigations of a remembered Catholic childhood, of the delights and challenges of domestic life, of the varieties of midwestern landscape, Boruch weaves a brilliant meditation on the intersections of the visible and the ...

Poetry's Old Air (Poets on Poetry)

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Marianne Boruch

University of Michigan Press, 1995

rewarding and insightful essays on poetry by a poet
"The essay is a curious form," remarks Boruch in her introduction, "closer in its meditative possibilities to poetry than is usually imagined. So it seems natural to work toward it as one might work toward a poem, with reverence for mystery and accident." These nine essays bear out this proposal admirably, engaging the reader with their intimate and colloquial intelligence, worthy companions to ...

Grace, Fallen from (Wesleyan Poetry)

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Marianne Boruch

Wesleyan, 2008

The third anthology of poetry from veteran poet Marianne Boruch
The third anthology of poetry from veteran poet Marianne Boruch, entitled "Grace, Fallen From" is now available. In this gripping collection of poems, Boruch touches on a wide range of subjects, and in the process, evokes a long range of emotions from her readers, from humor to making her readers think to pulling at their heart strings, Boruch does it all. "Grace, Fallen From" is a deftly ...

Ghost and Oar
Marianne Boruch

Red Dragonfly Press, 2007

Letterpress printed poetry chapbook. Contains a suite of twelve poems written during the author's time in the Artist-in-Residence Program at Isle Royale National Park. Original artwork by Gendron Jensen. Limited to 135 copies.

Poems: New and Selected

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Marianne Boruch

Oberlin College Press, 2004

Boruch has indeed buried the treasure in the most obvious place; her beautiful poems
Marianne Boruch, (Professor of Poetry at Purdue University), has included twenty-five new poems in Poems: New & Selected, a 208 page, hardcover anthology of her poems which also includes lavish selections from her previous poetry publications. Boruch's poetry is unpretentious, specific, and at times painfully subtle. Her work seems to translate the untranslatable. A selection is quoted here from ...