Nightfall Marginalia

A book of nocturnes and ekphrastics, the poem of the dream and the poem as dream, Nightfall Marginalia abandons diurnal constraint as it flickers through lyric and narrative, abecedarian, OuLiPo, prose poem, and parallax view. Twilit, autumnal, narrowly perched between elegy, eros, prayer and grimoire, here, the tangible-the sensate-becomes an entrance even to barely perceptible mystery, whether nearing the threshold of Hypnos or seeking the solace of a liminal dawn. Evocative, intricate, reverent and gorgeous and newly strange, these poems mark a new level of accomplishment for poet Sarah Maclay.

Sarah Maclay is the author of four previous collections, most recently, in collaboration with Holaday Mason, The "She" Series: A Venice Correspondence. A recipient of The Tampa Review Prize for Poetry and a Pushcart Special Mention, and a finalist for the Blue Lynx Prize, her work has been supported by Yaddo and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the City of Los Angeles. Book Review Editor of Poetry International for a decade, her poems and essays also appear in APR, FIELD, Ploughshares, The Writer's Chronicle, and The Best American Erotic Poetry: 1800 to the Present, among others. She teaches at LMU.