Description
Poetry. "Escape artists of many stripes populate these pages: reflective oddballs, the curious, the strangely gifted, the vulnerable. We witness ineffable, transformative moments in the lives of airborne saints or Houdini. Or we're transported to the Bigfoot Car Wash, or to an orgy of dead poets. Manwaring's delightfully inventive poems bring to mind Steven Millhauser's fiction and the work of magician Ricky Jay in their love of marvels and illusions, rendered with sly intelligence. Teetering between pathos and brightness, these poems simultaneously deconstruct and enact enchantment."—Amy Gerstler
Author Bio
Marjorie Manwaring lives in Seattle, where she is a freelance writer/editor, co-editor of the online poetry and art journal the DMQ Review, and editorial board member for Floating Bridge Press. Her poems have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies, including 5 AM, SENTENCE, and A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (University of Akron Press, 2012), and her work has been featured on National Public Radio affiliate KUOW. Marjorie holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from the Bennington College Writing Seminars and is the author of two chapbooks, What to Make of a Diminished Thing (Dancing Girl Press, 2012) and Magic Word (Pudding House Publications, 2007); SEARCH FOR A VELVET-LINED CAPE (Mayapple Press, 2013) is her first full-length collection.
Author City: SEATTLE, WA USA