Stranger Truths (Wick Poetry Chapbook) [Paperback]

Maureen Passmore (Author)

Book Description

Series: Wick Poetry Chapbook | Publication Date: January 8, 2005

"Maureen Passmore's poetry I can only liken to cut-and-polished jewels: structurally simple, innately priceless, sharp-edged, and brilliant. . . . With the jeweler's touch, she brings out just enough edge, elegant and lean, to intrigue us before offering the next edge, then the next. What makes her poetry more than just admirable is the genuine vision behind it: she is determined to recreate emotional experience through a vehicle other than herself. . . . In a time of highly decorative and self-serving artistry, here comes a poet with the strength of the ground." -- Larissa Szporluk

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About the Author

Maureen Passmore earned an M.F.A. from Bowling Green State University, where she received the Distinguished Master's Thesis Award. Her poems have appeared in Sycamore Review and have won the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize. She currently lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Product Details

• Paperback: 18 pages
• Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr (January 8, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087338833X
• ISBN-13: 978-0873388337
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,673,134 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Maureen Passmore earned her M.F.A. in poetry from Bowling Green State University in 2004, where she was awarded two Devine fellowships and the University's Distinguished Master's Thesis Award. Her poems have appeared in Sycamore Review, The Florida Review, in the anthology The Next of Us Is About to Be Born, and have won the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with her husband and two children and pays the bills as a science writer.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Masterful poetry, October 29, 2008

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This review is from: Stranger Truths (Wick Poetry Chapbook) (Paperback)

Passmore's poems are hauntingly beautiful. "The Fruit Woman" is my favorite-- it tantalizes the senses with words that evoke all the realism of Ukrainian peasantry.