Guide to Native Beasts - Softcover

Mary Quade

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880834618 ISBN 13: 9781880834619

Publisher: Cleveland State U Poetry Center, 2003

Synopsis

Mary Quade's point of view is uniquely hers -- linguistically inventive, edgily understated, poised and uncompromising. Nothing deflects her from rendering the relentless way we lurch forward, arms crossed, spreading damage like Edward Teller, wanting 'a crater, some fallout to measure.' Welcome to this new voice skillfully and mercifully calling us to account. --Marilyn Krysl, Judge, 2003 First Book Competition

About this title

About the Author

Mary Quade is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa. In 2001, she was awarded an Oregon Literary Fellowship. She now lives in rural northeastern Ohio.

Review

"Though Mary Quade's world in these quirkily meditative poems is populated with sundry native beasts -- from bats and horses to a neon chicken that 'squawks electric' -- it becomes clear that the creature that most galvanizes her imagination is the human beast itself. Accordingly, she plumbs and explores (implicating herself in the doing) the various poignancies of our longings, as well as our 'gloved' fists and hidden 'cold deeds' our 'blight of good intentions.' The result is my favorite kind of book -- attentive to the things of this world while remaining inherently philosophical." --Stephen Dunn

About this edition

• Publisher: Cleveland State U Poetry Center
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1880834618
• ISBN 13: 9781880834619
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96