Meridian

By Mark Maire

Winner of the Codhill Poetry Award for 2015.

Linguistically inventive, visually astute, and featuring illustrious attentiveness to the world, Meridian observes solitude in all forms. Coursing through the seasonal cycle of the American Midwest, its poems articulate the delicate veracity of northern landscapes, balanced with the often complicated, estranged nature of the human soul:

"Think of journeys with no destination:

stumbling into stale rooms late at night.

All day, through side windows, blue unfinished cities."

- from "Nothing Prepared Us"

From frost-covered roads to late-summer marshes, Mark Maire's vision provides a beautifully candid portrayal of an often harsh, but sometimes forgiving world, and the conflicted people within it. Through its devotion to the small, meaningful moments witnessed through a glance out the window or glossed from a touch to the skin, Meridian both stirs and comforts us, a testament to its honest insight into the human condition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930337884
• ISBN13: 9781930337886
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Distribution Partners
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher