May Day

May Day

by Gretchen Marquette
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 03/05/2016

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You arrive at my altar

with no idea


what it means to worship--to adore.

You haven't even learned it:


ecstasy and suffering

make the same face.


--from "The Offering"


May Day is both a distress call and a celebration of the arrival of spring. In this rich and unusually assured first collection, the poet Gretchen Marquette writes of the losses of a brother gone off to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and a great love--losses that have left the world charged with absence and grief. But there is also the wonder of the natural world: the deer at the edge of the forest, the dog reliably coaxing the poet beyond herself and into the city park where by tradition every May Day is pageantry, a festival of surviving the long winter. "What does it mean to be in love?" one poem asks. "As it turns out, / the second best thing that can happen to you / is a broken heart."


May Day introduces readers to a new poet of depth and power.

ISBN:
9781555979362
9781555979362
Category:
Poetry
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
03-05-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Graywolf Press

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