Poetry. DEFYING THE EYE CHART reaches beyond time to bring the mythic into our contemporary world. The poems in this collection focus on different ways of seeing, or not seeing, the fantastic in reality. Fresh language and vivid images evoke a range of emotions: anger, sadness, love, confusion and more. Ottone Riccio says, "There is a richness about [these poems]; they are powerful while being loving, they include wildness, violence, now and then surrealism." These poems are carefully shaped on the page; the layout of the lines enhances each poem's impact on the reader. Marilyn Jurich is Associate Professor of English at Suffolk University, Boston, where she teaches courses in Fantasy and Folklore, Speculative Literature, Children's Literature and Modern English Poetry. In 1998 in her book Scheherazade's Sisters: Trickster Heroines and Their Stories in World Literature (Greenwood Press), she established a new folklore type, the female trickster, called trickstar. Currently, she lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with Joseph, her husband, and Joscelyn, their daughter.

Author City: Brookline, MA USA

Marilyn Jurich is Associate Professor of English at Suffolk University, Boston, where she teaches courses in Fantasy and Folklore, Speculative Literature, Children's Literature and Modern English Poetry. In 1998 in her book Scheherazade's Sisters: Trickster Heroines and Their Stories in World Literature (Greenwood Press), she established a new folklore type, the female trickster, called trickstar. Currently, she lives in Brookline, Massachusetts with Joseph, her husband, and Joscelyn, their daughter. Her latest collection of poetry is: "Defying The Eye Chart".