The Diary of Saint Marion

Gloria Monaghan's poems, with their essentially straightforward, eminently readable language, also explode with surprises-a sly wit, a sprinkling of deliciously unusual verbiage ("oaknut," "cupule," "plumule"-all in the same poem!), and a wealth of startlingly touching details (the book opens with a little hand-grenade of a poem about a tiny opera bag that "Couldn't have held much more/than a few coins for tipping a bathroom attendant/or purchasing milk"). This whole book bursts with a rare freshness to be applauded and savored.

-Lloyd Schwartz, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of Who's on First? New and Selected Poems

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Lily Poetry Review
Published: 03/03/2025
ISBN: 9781957755571
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.15d