Sweet World reveals a 21st century life in the midst of an epidemic. It’s not about hating, battling, or even ultimately surviving the ravages of the epidemic as much as it is an homage to a life that continues even as the illness exists within the fabric of the body—the body, which is not victim, but vehicle for love, light, and growth. It is about a cease-fire with the disease while the soul steps up and takes the lead. Simply put, it’s about the challenges and ultimate joys of one woman’s life as she recreates herself in a time of breast cancer.
Fore/words: 2017 Tit, with Shelf Life I Dreamt a Land of Someone Elses Invention Two Men Walking a Breast What, Me? Pavane for a Dead Princess (at IKEA) Psalm 1.0 Tit, with Cannabis Planes Fly in Formation over the Backyard, as in War Movies Latitudes Boulder Sonnets, with Buddha and Ginsberg Summer Theater Colorado Ties for 6th Sunniest State Nederland Boulder Sonnet, with Buddha and Crickets Psalm 2.0 My Daughters among Dragonflies I think in spirals; Back/words: 1999 Sweet World 20 Little Lyric Essays (for Harold and Maude) The History of the World Is a Palindrome The Immortal #9 Pavane for a Dead Princess (on Pluto) The Astonished Tit, with Foreplay Tit, with Blue Guitar The Integrity of Matter; or, Peace in the Rose-colored Now The Integrity of Matter (A Footnote) A Distillation of Matter The Color of Oxygen Avoiding Suicide: A Grandmother Poem Notes on Ash Wednesday First They Were 12 Paintings from Hollis Siglers Breast Cancer Journal The Last Prairie Notes Acknowledgments
Gold Medal, Poetry Category
“Maureen Seaton is that rare thing: a poet’s poet (like Alice Notley, Elizabeth Bishop, W.H. Auden, Robert Hayden) and a poet for all of us (also like Notley, Bishop, Auden, Hayden), speaking for and to all of us about our shared human experience, speaking plal£)
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