Winner
of the 2004 Yellowglen Prize: Transport, Transplant,
Transubstantiation by Marjorie Maddox
Transplant,
Transport, Transubstantiation is a luminous collection, navigating
the human from the body’s blood and muscle to flights of the spirit.
In these compelling narratives and taxonomies, Marjorie Maddox accompanies
the reader on a harrowing and joyous journey.
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Poems by Marjorie Maddox
“This new full-length collection of poetry by Marjorie Maddox is
extraordinary. Maddox makes poems that pull the world inside out: the
hidden becomes apparent, the spiritual palpable, the heart, that sock
stuffed in the chest, gives rise to ‘the architecture of mercy.’
Examining, in a variety of moods, both the dazzling intricacy and the
frightening fragility of the human body, Maddox never forgets the heart
at the heart of the matter.”—Kelly Cherry
“In poems that survey the ‘body’s landscape,’
then raise their ‘hallelujah torrent’ to celebrate ‘the
human beneath,’ Marjorie Maddox allows faith—in language that
aspires toward prayer—to balance the sorrow and ‘stubbed joy’
that inform ‘the world we live in/and the world beyond.’ These
poems acknowledge the body and its betrayals with clarity, humor, and
Whitmanian fervor. This is a book of fierce and eloquent consolations.”—Michael
Waters
“Passionate, heartfelt documentaries of a life that is full, and
filling, and reaching for true purpose.”—Scott Cairns
Director of Creative Writing and Professor of English at Lock Haven University,
Marjorie Maddox has published Perpendicular As I (1994 Sandstone Book Award),
When the Wood Clacks Out Your Name:
Baseball Poems (2001 Redgreene Press Chapbook Winner), Body
Parts (Anamnesis Press, 1999), Ecclesia (Franciscan University
Press, 1997), How to Fit God into a Poem (1993 Painted Bride
Chapbook Winner), and Nightrider to Edinburgh (1986 Amelia Chapbook
Winner), as well as over 270 poems, stories, and essays in journals and
anthologies. Her numerous honors include Cornell University’s Chasen
Award and Sage Graduate Fellowship in Poetry, the 2000 Paumanok Poetry
Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Seattle Review’s
Bentley Prize for Poetry, a Breadloaf Scholarship, three Pushcart Prize
nominations, and a 2003 runner-up for the Brittingham and Pollak
Prizes. She is the co-editor of a forthcoming anthology of contemporary
poets on Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania State Press), and lives with her husband
and two small children in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
ISBN 1932339434, 116 pages, $17.00
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