Poetry. "Madeline Tiger explores the powerlessness and the strength of girlhood with scrupulous attention to detail. In FROM THE VIEWING STAND she is the child observer, bewildered and sometimes hurt by events and adults around her. In each poem she deftly captures a tone of both innocence and experience -how the child feels, what the adult knows. Like 'The Weeping Cherry Tree,' the poems in this memoir-like collection both 'weep' and 'burst.'"—Jessica G. De Koninck

Author City: BLOOMFIELD, NJ USA

Madeline Tiger's most recently published collections are FROM THE VIEWING STAND (Dos Madres Press, 2011), THE ATHEIST'S PRAYER (Dos Madres Press, 2010), and BIRDS OF SORROW AND JOY: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, 1970-2000 (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003). Her work appears regularly in journals and anthologies. She has been teaching in state programs and private workshops since 1973 and has been a "Dodge Poet" since 1986. She has five children and seven grandchildren and lives in Bloomfield, New Jersey, under a weeping cherry tree.