Poetry. "Playing inventive variations on the medieval book of hours, this marvelous collection swarms with vividly open language that suddenly gathers to moments of startling clarity: '...she looks remarkably well for one who hasn't blinked in a dec...

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Poetry. "In Pattie McCarthy's MARYBONES, the vision of Mary so proliferates that the frame of personhood (really, womanhood) stretches within the poems, demonstrating 'the difference between unknown & anon.' McCarthy makes a fascinating study of the...

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Poetry. "In Pattie McCarthy's wonderful new collection, NULLS, we are compelled to consider a collage of possible meetings which ultimately lead to birth-the birth of the poem, the birth of assumption, the birth of identity, and the birth of expecta...

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Poetry. "Pattie McCarthy's QUIET BOOK keeps its steady gaze trained on the mother/child unit—from the inside out and back in again. In gorgeous poems of formal range and daring, McCarthy gives us birth and motherhood like no other writer—she is unaf...

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Poetry. "Pattie McCarthy sifts with nervy precision through the debris of spoken English as rendered in definitions and on public platforms from the Middle Ages to something like now. In TABLE ALPHABETICAL OF HARD WORDS she has developed a powerful ...

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Poetry. What if Frank O'Hara had been, literally, a court jester? Or, at the very least, tutor of the King's children? Those are questions that linger in the imagination as one reads Pattie McCarthy's VERSO. McCarthy strikes a new tone in and for he...

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Poetry. Women's Studies. "Pattie McCarthy's meticulously researched wifthing sequence traverses history's gaps and silences throughout the medieval English vocabularies she has always been drawn to. Beginning with the fourteenth century English myst...

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