Mary & the Giant Mechanism

By Mary Helen Molinary

Poetry. Winner of the 2010 Tupelo Press/Crazyhorse First/Second Book Award, selected by Carol Ann Davis and Jeffrey Levine.

"Riven by the events of the first decade of this century and shot through with grief and a bird-like wonder, Mary Molinary uses the space of the poetry collection to experiment with a form--and therefore invent a mechanism--to reckon with this 'marked little bird of a heart' that must live each day with the knowledge of the ongoing torture, war, and violence performed in one's name. Perhaps in imitation of a complicity alternately figurative and real, the poet situates commonplaces close beside the nearly indescribable: a borrowed ornithology joined to an ancient illumination, 'a speaking self' beside 'a seen other, ' elegy followed by apology followed by 'what will emerge.' Through her thousand fresh images and tender elisions we are asked to look and finally see. To read MARY & THE GIANT MECHANISM is to revisit our common history with an open, lyric heart."--Carol Ann Davis

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936797232
• ISBN13: 9781936797233
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.9" x 8.9"