
Perpendicular As I
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Co-editor with Jerry Wemple of Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania, she has two children's books A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry and Rules of the Game: Baseball Poems. She is the great grandniece of baseball legend Branch Rickey, the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who helped break the color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson.
Marjorie studied with A. R. Ammons, Robert Morgan, Phyllis Janowitz, and Ken McClane at Cornell, where she received the Sage Graduate Fellowship for her MFA in poetry; with Sena Jeter Naslund at the University of Louisville, where she received an MA in English; and with Beatrice Batson and Harold Fickett at Wheaton College, where she received a BA in Literature.
Her numerous honors include Cornell University's Chasen Award, the Paumanok Poetry Award in 2000, an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Seattle Review's Bentley Prize for Poetry, a Bread Loaf Scholarship, Pushcart Prize nominations in both poetry and fiction, and Lock Haven University's 2012 Honors Professor of the Year. For more information, please see http://community.lhup.edu/mmaddoxh/biography.htm.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Section I
- Cartography
- The Lines in Your Body
- Chimera
- Growing Up Dying
- The Minister Preaches His Wife's Funeral at Night
- Invitational Hymn
- Winter Mail
- By Reply Mail
- Corresponding with a Stranger
- She Misses Calling Herself I
- Venn Diagrams
- Aqueous/Vitreous
- This Is the Color
- Almanac
- Tornadoes up Your Windpipe
- Elegy for a Man and a House
- Section II
- Undressing a Death
- The Truth of Lies, The Lies of Truth
- Makeshift Lessons
- Secret
- The Next Week in Nogales
- Valentine
- Elocution Lessons
- Ribs
- How to Lie/Listen
- Just When I Think I Am Comfortable, the Doorbell Rings
- Chiromancy
- On One Hand
- The Other Hand
- Soon
- Section III
- It's Not the Middle of the Night. Even So
- Sharp.
- City to City, Town to Town
- Winter Warning
- Accountability
- Back from Target Practice
- Buggy Ride at Sixteen
- Mother Tongue
- Worms, Bees, Lightning Bugs
- Reveille
- Spokes
- Heatstroke: Five Months Later
- Forty Nights
- Hope
- Again
- Relocation: The Building of the Dike Levee
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright Page
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