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May Day

by Gretchen Marquette
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You arrive at my altar
with no idea
what it means to worship—to adore.
You haven't even learned it:
ecstasy and suffering
make the same face.
—from "The Offering"
May Day is both a distress call and a celebration of the arrival of spring. In this rich and unusually assured first collection, the poet Gretchen Marquette writes of the losses of a brother gone off to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and a great love—losses that have left the world charged with absence and grief. But there is also the wonder of the natural world: the deer at the edge of the forest, the dog reliably coaxing the poet beyond herself and into the city park where by tradition every May Day is pageantry, a festival of surviving the long winter. "What does it mean to be in love?" one poem asks. "As it turns out, / the second best thing that can happen to you / is a broken heart."
May Day introduces readers to a new poet of depth and power.

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Publisher: Graywolf Press

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  • Release date: May 3, 2016

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  • ISBN: 9781555979362
  • File size: 2184 KB
  • Release date: May 3, 2016

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  • ISBN: 9781555979362
  • File size: 2184 KB
  • Release date: May 3, 2016
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Fiction Poetry

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English

You arrive at my altar
with no idea
what it means to worship—to adore.
You haven't even learned it:
ecstasy and suffering
make the same face.
—from "The Offering"
May Day is both a distress call and a celebration of the arrival of spring. In this rich and unusually assured first collection, the poet Gretchen Marquette writes of the losses of a brother gone off to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and a great love—losses that have left the world charged with absence and grief. But there is also the wonder of the natural world: the deer at the edge of the forest, the dog reliably coaxing the poet beyond herself and into the city park where by tradition every May Day is pageantry, a festival of surviving the long winter. "What does it mean to be in love?" one poem asks. "As it turns out, / the second best thing that can happen to you / is a broken heart."
May Day introduces readers to a new poet of depth and power.

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Fiction Poetry
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