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May Day: Poems

May Day: Poems

Marquette, Gretchen

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 1555977391
ISBN13: 9781555977399
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: May 3 2016
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.20 Width: 6.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

You arrive at my altar
with no idea

what it means to worship--to adore.
You haven't even learned it:

ecstasy and suffering
make the same face.

--from The Offering

May Day is both a distress call and a celebration of the arrival of spring. In this rich and unusually assured first collection, the poet Gretchen Marquette writes of the losses of a brother gone off to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and a great love--losses that have left the world charged with absence and grief. But there is also the wonder of the natural world: the deer at the edge of the forest, the dog reliably coaxing the poet beyond herself and into the city park where by tradition every May Day is pageantry, a festival of surviving the long winter. What does it mean to be in love? one poem asks. As it turns out, / the second best thing that can happen to you / is a broken heart.

May Day introduces readers to a new poet of depth and power.

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