Perpendicular As I

Auteur

Marjorie Maddox grew up with baseball, and she and her family have continued the rich tradition of the sport. She is the great grandniece of Branch Rickey, the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who helped break the color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson to the Major Leagues. She lives in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, home of the Little League World Series. A professor of English at Lock Haven University, she is the author of a dozen collections of poetry, a short story collection, and four children's books. For more information, visit: www.marjoriemaddox.com. John Sandford has illustrated many books, including Down Buttermilk Lane by Barbara Mitchell; Moonstick: The Seasons of the Sioux by Eve Bunting; and The Terrible Hodag and the Animal Catchers by Caroline Arnold. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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"As one re-reads Marjorie's poems, which have airy beginnings usually in breath, voice, intimation, they grow increasingly concrete until situations, relationships, and feelings are palpable and deeply moving." --A.R. Ammons "She returns again and again to the ways body becomes landscape and landscape becomes body, internal and external repeatedly merging with one another." --Andrew Hudgins "What a range of richness.... We are left with a sense of uprightness and aspiration, a memorable voice, and of our own worlds, and selves surprised, deepened and lifted toward a larger meaning." --Robert Morgan "The Poems do indeed stand up straight and demand notice....beautiful signposts for her readers, so that we may draw near and follow, and make some confident sense of the mysterious maze in there." --Leon Stokesbury (contest judge)