Review of Maggie Paul's poetry

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Borrowed World

Borrowed World (2011)

Buy Borrowed World (ISBN 978-0-9792567-6-9, 72 pages, Hummingbird Press): Order at the Hummingbird Press web site. Or, ask your local book store to order this book of glorious poems. See other Hummingbird Press poets: Barbara Bloom. Charles Atkinson. Debra Spencer. Joanna Martin. Len Anderson. Maggie Paul.

• Maggie Paul's first collection is highly recommended.

• Beautiful lyric poems of affection for this world and the people in it, despite loss, despite sorrow.

• Exquisite cover painting by Suzanne Scherer and Pavel Ouporov.

• Particular favorite poems include:
  • "In the Part" [p. 18] for its mystery and it use of form.
  • "Honest Work" [p. 58] for its recognition of devotion, of family, of why we work.
  • "Mindfulness" [p. 59] for its rueful self recognition.

  A list of favorites could, of course, include every poem in this book.

• Dedication: "For Amelia and Alex two worlds that grace my own".

• Two sections:
  1. 27 poems (one per page) in "Given Worlds".
  2. 27 poems in 28 pages in "Other Worlds".

• Acknowledges first publications in:
  • Drexel On-Line Journal
  • Good Times
  • Harvest From the Emerald Street Orchard
  • In Print
  • Look Back At the Leopard Like the Leopard
  • Poetry Miscellany
  • Porter Gulch Review
  • Santa Cruz Sentinel
  • Stones From the Baskets of Others
  • Talking Points

• On the back cover, poet Gary Young writes:

  Maggie Paul's poetry is an act of radical translation. In Borrowed World, she negotiates the treacherous region between the world as we imagine it, and the world as it really is — the world of potentiality, and the world of stark inevitability. Maggie Paul is 'haunted by the souls / of things beneath words,' and like a child opening one nesting doll after another, she is after an irreducible world — the one hidden behind the confusion of obfuscating pretenders.

Links and Books.

Links and Books.

• Best American Poetry series.
• Best Poems by the Best Poets - Some Lists of Winners.
• Laureate: the Poets Laureate of Britain
• Laureate: the Poets Laureate of the U.S.A.
• Other Books of Poetry Form.

Related pages: Books of Poetry Form. Alphabetic poetry topics. Poetry Home. How to Write Poetry. How to write specific forms: Haibun. Haiku. Hay(na)ku. Rengay. Tanka. Concrete. Ghazal. Lai. Pantoum. Rondeau. Rubáiyát. Sestina. Sonnet. Terza rima. Triolet. Tritina. Villanelle.

Other poets: Franz Wright. Jack Gilbert. Jorie Graham. Karen Braucher. Li-Young Lee. Linda Pastan. Nordic Skalds. Richard Hugo. W.S. Merwin.

Books of Poetry Form.

Copyright © 2011-2016 by J. Zimmerman, except for the quoted poems, which are Copyright © 2011-2015 by Maggie Paul.

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