Willow from the Willow (Cleveland Poets, 53) - Softcover

Young, Margaret H.

9781880834541: Willow from the Willow (Cleveland Poets, 53)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880834545 ISBN 13: 9781880834541

Publisher: Cleveland State Univ Poetry Center, 2002

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Margaret Young's first poetry collection. Good for an introduction to poetry class.

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About the Author:

Margaret Young grew up in Oberlin, Ohio, where she now lives. She graduated from Yale and earned an M.A. in creative writing from U.C. Davis. Portions of her thesis, Fringe Kitchens , essays about life in a traveling theater company, were published in literary journals and won the Ohioana Library Association's Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant.

She has taught creative writing at Allegheny College, in Meadville, Pennsylvania and many other places, most recently as part of the Ohio Arts Council Artists in Residence program. She is working on a novel and another collection of essays.

Review:

"By turns lyric, sardonic, and elegiac, Margaret Young is always a meticulous observer, learning , Willow from the Willow , as she watches May 'etch and bloom,' records the misdoings of a cough that's a 'small beast in my chest,' and mourns a mother whose ghostly presence blesses these pages when she returns in dreams, 'wet hands shining for me.' It's a pleasure to read the words this poet murmurs as she moves sure-footedly toward 'the sweet white ice of tomorrow'" --Sandra M. Gilbert

"At the center of this wide-ranging and highly engaging and accomplished first collection of poems by Margaret Young is a paradoxical sensibility: one with a girl's heart and a woman's breadth of experience.

Ms. Young is at ease in the realm of myth as well as in the realm of the pathologies of family life. She embraces loss and death with the same dignigty and unselfconsciousness as she embraces joy and discovery. There is one elegant surprise after another as you read through these poems, and in the end there is the clear sense that you have been in the presence of a true lover of words and a spinner of sometimes frighteningly clear tales of who we are and why we are this way." --Bruce Weigl

"'What have you got to show for your tears?' Margaret Young asks herself and everyone. She has a gorgeous new book to show, one filled with places and moments I love, admire, and sometimes envy. 'Your mother is not there to catch you / again, her face not smiling / from the promised first snow cloud' -- I am wounded and healed by these lines and by many, many others. I am grateful that this book exists. " --Franz Wright

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