Faith (Wesleyan New Poets)

Lynne McMahon resists the compromises that come with domestication of heavenly space. Seeking to restore a lost sense of wonder, she creates out of mundane rituals - those concerning marriage and motherhood, in particular - a new affirmation that might be called faith. Things taken for granted are transformed by reflection and observation. Morning is "ordinary and amazing"; a garden shows "tiny knuckles of upturning life." "And at the end there will be someplace like this, white pillars on a gray porch, ferns and sweet William carpeting the shade."

Literature & Fiction

McMahon, Lynne

Poetry

Wesleyan University Press

"From a buoyant imagination and a luxurant, spiky diction, Lynne McMahon's poems brew a heady elixir. Under its spell, Elvis can be seen as Orpheus, or Virgil turn up as an evangelist. A baby's pacifier or the state of California, anything and everything gets reinvented by this marvelous fabulist." J.D. McClatchy"These are poems of scope and daring: the traditional image of one line turns into the subversive emblem of another. Elvis and California. The sixties and sunglasses. These icons of one world are negotiated into the meanings of another. But what is most impressive is the yearning in every line to heal the false divisions between the public and the private, between the outer meaning and the inward perception." Eavan Boland

Devolution of the Nude

David R. Godine, Publisher

<p>Poems by Lynne McMahon, poet, winner of 1983 Riverstone International Poetry Chapbook Competition.</p>

White tablecloths (Poets of the Foothills Art Center)

Riverstone Press

<p>In her newest collection, Lynne McMahon offers poems of memory and youth, " all lycra and spandex"; of literary influences, from Gerard Manley Hopkins to Anna Akhmatova (from whom the book's title is derived); and of adulthood and the ambiguities of family life. As in her previous volume, Devolutions of the Nude, these poems are "richly allusive and diverse" (Indiana Review). But they also show a rare groundedness and coherence a yearning, in the words of Eavan Boland, "to heal the false divisions between the public and the private, between the outer meaning and the inner perception."</p>

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Faith (Wesleyan New Poets)

Faith (Wesleyan New Poets)

Devolution of the Nude

White tablecloths (Poets of the Foothills Art Center)

The House of Entertaining Science