Headlands

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In the midst of a cacophonous crowd, Mary Shumway has rediscovered the joy of good sounds. Her rhythms translate into a compelling sense of forward motion and her consonants and vowels play against one another in a carefully orchestrated casualness. And she knows the difference between the trivial and what matters. Which is to say that Mary Shumway is a poet, which is no small thing and something to be glad about.
-miller williams
I am lovingly taken by all these poems. They sing themselves to factfelt experience in a real swirl and reawakening of language. They make me happy. What better can poems do?
- john cl\rdi
At just the right moment, Mary Shumway links herself with what she sees, whether it's headlands . . . or the Plover . . . or a Chevrolet.
- mark harris
Cover Photograph by D. Brian Kurtz Design by Gustav Rueter
Mary Shumway, born and raised in Wisconsin, was educated at the University of Chicago, San Francisco State College, and the University of Denver. She has... Tovább

Fülszöveg

In the midst of a cacophonous crowd, Mary Shumway has rediscovered the joy of good sounds. Her rhythms translate into a compelling sense of forward motion and her consonants and vowels play against one another in a carefully orchestrated casualness. And she knows the difference between the trivial and what matters. Which is to say that Mary Shumway is a poet, which is no small thing and something to be glad about.
-miller williams
I am lovingly taken by all these poems. They sing themselves to factfelt experience in a real swirl and reawakening of language. They make me happy. What better can poems do?
- john cl\rdi
At just the right moment, Mary Shumway links herself with what she sees, whether it's headlands . . . or the Plover . . . or a Chevrolet.
- mark harris
Cover Photograph by D. Brian Kurtz Design by Gustav Rueter
Mary Shumway, born and raised in Wisconsin, was educated at the University of Chicago, San Francisco State College, and the University of Denver. She has taught at George Williams College, the San Francisco Art Institute, and is currently an associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin in Stevens Point. In 1967 she was elected associate fellow to the Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture. She has twice received an Academy of American Poets Prize, and in 1969 was awarded the Robert Frost Fellowship to Bread Loaf. Her first collection, Song of the Archer, was published in 1964. Vissza