Everything's a Verb (MVP) [Paperback]

Debra Marquart (Author)

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Acts Of Preservation %for Thea Kati
And Who Do You Belong To
The Attempt
Behave
Between Wives
Birthmark
The Blizzard Rope
Bronze These Shoes
The Crossings
Doing The Twist
Everythings A Verb
Finding The Words
Gatherings
Getting Ready
Grandfathers Hands
Gravity's First Lesson
He Will Make Some Women
History Of A Portrait
I Am Upstairs, Trying To Be Quiet
Knitting
The Long Root
The Miracle Baby
Missing Wife
Motorcade
My Father Tells This Story About His Brother Frank And The Wick
The Permanent
Resurrection
Riding Back To Town
Riding Shotgun Through Lowa With Quest
Shit & The Dream Of It
Small Town Cafe
Somewhere In A House Where You Are Not
Speaking The Language
True Tribe
Watching Joann Castle Play
The Weaver
When The Names Still Fit The Faces
The Woman On The Dance Floor
Wormwood
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Marquart looks forward . . . as a strong, independent woman and confronts some of the harsher realities of what that experience means in our world -- Mary Swander, author of Heaven-and-Earth House

About the Author

Debra Marquart teaches at Iowa State University in Ames, and performs jazz poetry with her group, The Bone People.

Product Details

• Paperback: 85 pages
• Publisher: New Rivers Press; 1st edition (January 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0898231620
• ISBN-13: 978-0898231625
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,517,224 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Debra Marquart is a professor of English in the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment at Iowa State University and an affiliated faculty member with the Stonecoast Low-Residency MFA Program at University of Southern Maine. A performance poet, Marquart is the author of two poetry collections: Everything's a Verb (New Rivers Press, 1995) and From Sweetness (Pearl Editions, 2002).

In the 1970s and '80s, Marquart was a touring road musician with rock and heavy metal bands. Her collection of short stories, The Hunger Bone: Rock & Roll Stories (New Rivers Press, 2001) draws from her experiences as a female road musician. Marquart continues to perform with a jazz-poetry rhythm & blues project, The Bone People, with whom she released two CDs: Orange Parade (acoustic rock); and A Regular Dervish (jazz-poetry).

Marquart's work has received a 2008 Prose Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Pushcart Prize, the John Guyon Nonfiction Award (Crab Orchard Review), the Mid-American Review Nonfiction Award, The Headwater's Prize from New Rivers Press, the Minnesota Voices Award, the Pearl Poetry Award (Pearl Editions), the Shelby Foote Prize for the Essay from the Faulkner Society.

Marquart's memoir, The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere received the 2007 PEN USA Creative Nonfiction Award, the Elle Lettres Award from Elle Magazine, and a New York Times "Editors' Choice" commendation. She is currently at work on three books: a novel set in Greece titled, Among the Ruins; a roots-travel memoir about her family's migrations through Ukraine, Russia and Siberia, titled Somewhere Else This Time Tomorrow: On Geographical Flight & Cultural Amnesia; and a poetry collection, titled, To Break Into Blossom.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely beautiful and so real!, September 1, 1999

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This review is from: Everything's a Verb (MVP) (Paperback)

She knows how to use language! Read these poems outloud, to yourself or to anyone! I read this over and over. She tells what it's like to be a girl, a woman, a musician, a lover.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great narrative and lyrical power, October 24, 2003

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"nmkid" (TX, United States) - See all my reviews

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It's a nice thing when you can get the stories of poems. There were several times when this was true with Everything's a Verb. Meemorable stories and memorable lines and images within the poems. Stories of a young girl changing and rechanging clothes before school while her father shouts for her to hurry up, the anecdote of an uncle who wasn't cut out for farm life and his frugal father, told to a young girl as a way to get here to be more responsible. These are only stories from two poems, but I finished reading this book feeling like I had a slice of North Dakota life, and a slice of the poet's life: extraoridnary, complex, and poetic.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "A Regular Dervish", January 8, 2001

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James J Bemboom (Dubuque, IA United States) - See all my reviews

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I had the opportunity to be taught under Deb Marquart and all I can say is she's terrific! EVERYTHING'S A VERB shows that she practices what she teaches, relating some of her real life experiences into her poetry. I was pretty mesmerized by her writing. To this day, I still love "Getting Ready," and wish I could write something are great as that. I would recommend this to anyone who loves poetry. Deb has a great gift, and I'm sure right now she's "being-have."