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SUMMARY:Poet Mary Simmons
LOCATION:South Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch\nSouth Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch
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DESCRIPTION:Join us when poet Mary Simmons visits to discuss her debut col
 lection of poetry\, <i>Mother\, Daughter\, Augur</i>..\nhttps://cuyahoga.l
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><em>About the author:</em><br /><br /><str
 ong>Mary Simmons</strong> is a queer poet from Cleveland\, Ohio. She earne
 d her MFA from Bowling Green State University\, where she also served as t
 he managing editor for <em>Mid-American Review</em>. Her work has appeared
  in <em>The Baltimore Review</em>\, <em>ONE ART</em>\, <em>trampset</em>\,
  <em>Moon City Review</em>\, <em>Variant Lit</em>\, <em>The Shore</em>\, a
 nd elsewhere. She lives with her cat\, Suki\, at the edge of the woods.</p
 >\n<p>Mary Simmons&rsquo\;s debut\, <em><strong>Mother\, Daughter\, Augur<
 /strong></em>\, is a world unto itself: a dark storybook realm\, lush and 
 full of eerie possibility\, a place outside of time where women move in di
 fferent forms and pass on warnings and wisdom. In the spirit of a Victoria
 n naturalist&rsquo\;s collection\, this book brings together found element
 s from nature\, folklore\, mythology\, ballet\, and oral tradition\, craft
 ing a strange\, kaleidoscopic beauty and complicating inherited definition
 s of femininity. As these poems blur dichotomies&mdash\;maiden and witch\,
  mother and daughter\, friend and lover&mdash\;they reach for a new vision
  of womanhood beyond the bounds of roles and expectations\, one that is my
 stical\, ethereal\, a little dangerous\, and inherently queer. In the proc
 ess\, they tap into deep currents of yearning\, grapple with corporeality\
 , raise larger questions about love and what lasts\, and find meaning in t
 he uncanny and the macabre. In these pages are insects and omens\, wolves 
 and birds and weird apparitions\, Odile and Ophelia\, even a seventeenth-c
 entury professional poisoner. Original\, atmospheric\, and immersive\, thi
 s is a work like no other: a tour through an enchanted forest\, a darkness
  that&rsquo\;s illuminating.</p>\n<p><br /><em><strong>Books will be avail
 able for purchase courtesy of Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry.</strong></e
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