Street View: Poems by Maryann Corbett

Maryann Corbett’s road View is a landscape of perspectives: suburban and concrete avenues, proven in leaf and in snow; alleyways the place misfits lurk in darkness, but additionally the place “Adonis, charioteer of municipal waste assortment, rides with the morning”; and boulevards of previous structures whose splendor is still indisputable, even if “prinked within the clown swimsuit of commerce.” highway View additionally navigates the resiliency and failings of the human physique, and the stories of kin and pivotal neighbors that form viewpoints for reliable or unwell. this can be the paintings of a professional poet in charge of her craft, and deservedly, a finalist for the 2016 capable Muse ebook Award.

PRAISE FOR road VIEW:

Assaulted, as all of us are, by way of relentless, stressed noise-throbbing subwoofers, city building, cynical advertising and marketing and violent information, even our personal banal chitchat-Maryann Corbett “strafe[s] again with the total Roget/ and gun[s her] engine to its personal tough strife. . . .” notwithstanding her guns, her engines, are stillness, perception, and rhythm, there's certainly a feeling during which the poems in highway View wallop their matters with language. The beautiful, doubtless easy grace of those poems with their penetrating track and humor deserve a commendation like that the poet supplies Veronese: “This is the catechesis/ we'd like now, for the type of sight we paintings with/ the following, the place the realm kabooms.”
-George David Clark

Given her reward with aspect, Maryann Corbett is the appropriate individual to provide a view, yet an excellent extra ideal individual to supply a “street view,” the name of her new assortment. whereas Corbett has made a occupation of being particular, she will be able to be whimsical in addition, all the way down to the “Northrop Mall . . . as mounted and formal as an English sonnet.” but might be her maximum energy is that she isn't really afraid to be the quiet regular gaze that takes in every little thing: every part most folks could miss.
-Kim Bridgford

Maryann Corbett takes the ode much less traveled (not to say the terzanelle much less attempted and the dactylic hexameter nearly unparalleled) to oddly standard locations: the West facet Y in ny urban, Grand road in St. Paul, the dentist’s health center. She is a rhapsodist of occasions previous and locations misplaced or endangered, yet she additionally lives greatly within the current. She examines reviews with shrewdness and fascination, crafting them into poems which are breathtaking of their intelligence and brio.
-Susan McLean

In Maryann Corbett’s new e-book, we're given a road View at the global, from Minneapolis to Jerusalem. those streets are populated with quite a few city characters, from the vagrant to the damaging educational “Weirdo” along with his void-sucked soul who makes one ponder mass killings. Suffice it to claim that the road view should be uglier than the view onto the mountains or the sea, yet in that ugliness are available a clearer view at the fact of ways we are living today.
-Tony Barnstone

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Maryann Corbett was once born in Washington, DC, grew up in McLean, Virginia, and has lived in Minnesota in view that 1972 and in Saint Paul given that 1986. knowledgeable as a medievalist and linguist, she earned a doctorate in English from the college of Minnesota and spent virtually thirty-five years operating for the Minnesota Legislature as an in-house writing instructor, editor, and indexer. Her poetry is generally released and has gained such awards because the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize and the Richard Wilbur Award.
  She is the writer of the books Credo for the Checkout Line in wintry weather additionally from capable Muse Press, Breath regulate, Mid Evil, in addition to the chapbooks Gardening in a Time of warfare and Dissonance.