Winner of the 2009 Green Rose Prize in Poetry
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No one else writes poems anywhere near these in felt intelligence, in glorious sensuous detail. --Bin Ramke
In a masterful work of startling possibilities, Markham layers gleaming phrases into a testimony to the world's particularities, which she reveals as also, paradoxically, eternal. Nothing here is limited by history, but instead attains the kind of simultaneity that drives myth. And like myth, her world is populated by creatures that mean, irreducibly, only themselves. Her ready attention to animals and birds is indicative of a compassion that demands of the world an inventive intelligence, and offers it one in return. --Cole Swensen
What might one do if one finds him- or herself in a fairy tale?: "There is no danger, only the trick/of time passing," says Malinda Markham in her long-awaited and much-anticipated second collection of poetry that is both an invitation to immerse and an invocation of metamorphic language-worlds that are fashioned from the dreams of children and birds; hells and hungry ghosts; and fairies and familiars. This elegant, image-rich verse provides ancient, gnostic remedies that "keep the fear-songs at bay." --Martine Bellen
In a masterful work of startling possibilities, Markham layers gleaming phrases into a testimony to the world's particularities, which she reveals as also, paradoxically, eternal. Nothing here is limited by history, but instead attains the kind of simultaneity that drives myth. And like myth, her world is populated by creatures that mean, irreducibly, only themselves. Her ready attention to animals and birds is indicative of a compassion that demands of the world an inventive intelligence, and offers it one in return. --Cole Swensen
What might one do if one finds him- or herself in a fairy tale?: "There is no danger, only the trick/of time passing," says Malinda Markham in her long-awaited and much-anticipated second collection of poetry that is both an invitation to immerse and an invocation of metamorphic language-worlds that are fashioned from the dreams of children and birds; hells and hungry ghosts; and fairies and familiars. This elegant, image-rich verse provides ancient, gnostic remedies that "keep the fear-songs at bay." --Martine Bellen
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Markham's first book of poems, Ninety-five Nights of Listening, won the Bread Loaf Bakeless Prize and was published by Houghton-Mifflin. She lives in New York.
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Deft verse,
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This review is from: Having Cut the Sparrow's Heart (New Issues Poetry & Prose) (Paperback)
Learned woman in two languages, Malinda Markham brings readers "Having Cut the Sparrow's Heart", another book of poetry from the prolific woman writer. Drawing on her own experiences residing in two countries, she creates deft verse, making "Having Cut the Sparrow's Heart" a true treat. "Famous Sights of the Eastern Capital": In the painting A mystic Lion hurls its cub from the cliff, the cub/cradles either a mirror or harp. Its eyes show no fear. The man asked/her what it meant. She said the cliff looked familiar, the body splayed/like laughter and curved. "What carnal knowledge," he asked,/"makes you old?"
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