Local News from Someplace Else Marjorie Maddox Books
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We don't define home the same way anymore. School shootings and natural disasters populate the headlines. Tragedy and disease infiltrate our neighborhoods. We not only must survive in an unsafe world, but also persevere in it. By confronting fear and embracing family, Local News from Someplace Else rediscovers both grace and joy.
Local News from Someplace Else Marjorie Maddox Books
The phrase “whistling past the graveyard” comes to mind so often now, whenever we log on to CNN.com, or turn on the nightly news before bed. We feel like numbing ourselves to deflect against our fears as we move through life. However, in Local News from Someplace Else, Marjorie Maddox offers another solution to our anxieties: a book of poems that gives graceful insight into the world of a woman, wife and mother in the sometimes dark days of contemporary American Life.Speaking in voices that vacillate between the somber yet concise tones of news anchors reporting on painful tragedies, and the nervous fluttering at the maternal breast, Maddox makes it clear that the only way to survive the world is to truly live in it fully. In “Anniversary Coffee,” the speaker lovingly attests to the passage of time, to elevate an otherwise mundane event:
Those behind the counter
know us and know
when to save what we want,
can order for us, smile at how we smile
at each other’s drenched winsomeness. You are
not what I order but what I order now
across the café table, across the morning
spread with such a delectable savor.
The familiarity of a local setting, coupled with the familiarity of an intimate bond grounds the couplets of the poem, as the lines enjamb and cascade over one another, in what William Wordsworth calls in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads, the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
Equally important in the work is the coupling of tension, pain or sorrow with faith in something greater. Maddox, the director of Creative Writing and Professor at Lock Haven University, is able to show us what remains after trauma, even it is simply our ability to endure. “Safe” shows us this visceral, dramatic realization in its’ powerful opening lines, “My baby and I stay home / from the funeral for the murdered child”. Through it all, Maddox’s voice is precise and empathic without being maudlin. While the rest of us might grasp at anything to simply deal with the most overwhelming aspects of our lives, her unwavering confidence that humans are more than just the sum on their parts offers a beautiful, and hopeful message to the reader.
I had a chance to speak to Marjorie Maddox, and present on her work at the North East Modern Language Association’s conference in April of this year, and the audience was fascinated by the provenance of each poem that was discussed, and more importantly, the authority of a woman-writer taking on global and political issues through such a personal medium. For Maddox, the fact that the personal is political is not something that we need to fear, it’s just another challenge that we face every day, and one that can be faced with generosity and compassion for fellow sufferers.
Though occasional bogged down by its own conceit, and a fascination for modern technology, Local News from Someplace Else works hard to bridge the divide between what we know and what we fear from human life by speaking frankly, yet delicately, about what matters most.
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Local News from Someplace Else Marjorie Maddox Books Reviews
The book really gets at a huge issue in society, one I think so many people try to avoid dealing with or facing. But writing about it, talking about it, pulls away the Bandaids that we've tried to put over wounds that are too big to be ignored, not just in our personal lives, but in the greater scheme of society. It forces us to remember our humanity and ask ourselves what responsibilities we have toward each other in this life; what does it mean to be human amongst other humans, especially when tragedy strikes?
It is easy to say, "Oh how sad," when we see stories like the ones featured in Marjorie's poems on the news, but we so easily brush these stories away without a second thought. Marjorie's poems remind us of the reality of the world we live in, and provide us with an opportunity to reflect on what these events say about humanity, not necessarily for the event's sake, but for how we as a people respond to these events, even long after they have passed.
Reflection gives us a chance for redemption. The one triumph that is born of tragedy is that it gives us the opportunity to remember our humanity to offer our resources for the aid of those who have lost everything, to put an arm around those who mourn and to mourn with them, to bring life back to one another in the midst of destruction, and to not let despair take our humanity from us. Reading these poems reminds us of the stories that we all heard and perhaps ignored at the time, but the beauty is that they remind us that it's never too late to let the past heal us for our future. Marjorie's poems are filled with hope and a prompting to remember our humanity and find healing.
local author---nice book
Marjorie Maddox's latest book of poetry takes the tragic from many places -- school shootings, earthquakes, kidnappings, floods -- and makes it intensely personal. The language here is sharp and pointed, the titles delightful, such as "After Having Children, We Re-introduce Ourselves to Bicycles." Maddox's words make us see the world in a different way -- closer to us, more attached to our own joys and grievings. Throughout it all, there is a palpable sense of Maddox's own faith and belief in grace that provides notes of joy in these troubled times.
The phrase “whistling past the graveyard” comes to mind so often now, whenever we log on to CNN.com, or turn on the nightly news before bed. We feel like numbing ourselves to deflect against our fears as we move through life. However, in Local News from Someplace Else, Marjorie Maddox offers another solution to our anxieties a book of poems that gives graceful insight into the world of a woman, wife and mother in the sometimes dark days of contemporary American Life.
Speaking in voices that vacillate between the somber yet concise tones of news anchors reporting on painful tragedies, and the nervous fluttering at the maternal breast, Maddox makes it clear that the only way to survive the world is to truly live in it fully. In “Anniversary Coffee,” the speaker lovingly attests to the passage of time, to elevate an otherwise mundane event
Those behind the counter
know us and know
when to save what we want,
can order for us, smile at how we smile
at each other’s drenched winsomeness. You are
not what I order but what I order now
across the café table, across the morning
spread with such a delectable savor.
The familiarity of a local setting, coupled with the familiarity of an intimate bond grounds the couplets of the poem, as the lines enjamb and cascade over one another, in what William Wordsworth calls in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads, the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
Equally important in the work is the coupling of tension, pain or sorrow with faith in something greater. Maddox, the director of Creative Writing and Professor at Lock Haven University, is able to show us what remains after trauma, even it is simply our ability to endure. “Safe” shows us this visceral, dramatic realization in its’ powerful opening lines, “My baby and I stay home / from the funeral for the murdered child”. Through it all, Maddox’s voice is precise and empathic without being maudlin. While the rest of us might grasp at anything to simply deal with the most overwhelming aspects of our lives, her unwavering confidence that humans are more than just the sum on their parts offers a beautiful, and hopeful message to the reader.
I had a chance to speak to Marjorie Maddox, and present on her work at the North East Modern Language Association’s conference in April of this year, and the audience was fascinated by the provenance of each poem that was discussed, and more importantly, the authority of a woman-writer taking on global and political issues through such a personal medium. For Maddox, the fact that the personal is political is not something that we need to fear, it’s just another challenge that we face every day, and one that can be faced with generosity and compassion for fellow sufferers.
Though occasional bogged down by its own conceit, and a fascination for modern technology, Local News from Someplace Else works hard to bridge the divide between what we know and what we fear from human life by speaking frankly, yet delicately, about what matters most.
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