The Diary of Saint Marion

By Gloria Monaghan

Gloria Monaghan's poems, with their essentially straightforward, eminently readable language, also explode with surprises-a sly wit, a sprinkling of deliciously unusual verbiage ("oaknut," "cupule," "plumule"-all in the same poem ), and a wealth of startlingly touching details (the book opens with a little hand-grenade of a poem about a tiny opera bag that "Couldn't have held much more/than a few coins for tipping a bathroom attendant/or purchasing milk"). This whole book bursts with a rare freshness to be applauded and savored.

-Lloyd Schwartz, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of Who's on First? New and Selected Poems

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1957755571
• ISBN13: 9781957755571
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Lily Poetry Review
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"