Gretchen Marquette has published poems in Harper's Magazine, The Paris Review, and Tin House. She lives and teaches in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
"The poems [in May Day] plumb stories of lost love and anxiety, but
each unearths glimpses of life's wonder." --Euan Kerr, MPR "Lovely,
dark, haunted, and haunting. . . . [Marquette's]
subjects--childhood memories of a brother and bracing visions of
him on military deployment overseas; hungering, fragile love; the
very nature of human experience--are so carefully handled, with
such resolve and resignation. . . . Readers will remember this
book."--Publishers Weekly "Startlingly original. . . . Marquette's
beautiful and macabre images have the feel of a classic fairy
tale."--Star Tribune "Impressive."--Largehearted Boy "'Why am I so
ungainly with love / after all the loving I've done?' asks Gretchen
Marquette in this beautiful and disquieting new collection... The
spring celebration of May Day becomes--and is simultaneously--the
distress cry. It is as if in these pages Marquette has learned to
wear 'her heart outside of her body.' The alertness, precision, and
vulnerability of these poems are astonishing."--Mary Szybist
"In this somber, well-crafted debut volume, Gretchen Marquette has
constructed an arresting study of absence and loss... It is the
true sign of a poet that, out of this landscape, Marquette has
carved a commanding, deeply felt book."--Lynn Emanuel "May Day is a
book of great delicacy of observation and noticing, but one that
interrogates feeling with rigor, intelligence, and a radiant
imagination."--Mark Wunderlich "In this delicate, soulful
collection, the countless arresting facts of our universe--the size
of galaxies, the nesting habits of cardinals, the cottonwood's
serrated leaves--are felt as intimately as the loss of love or
worry about a brother gone to war. . . Alternating between
narrative prose poems and brief, breathier lines, the book plumbs
the depths of love and grief with attention and
tenderness."--Mairead Small Staid, Literati Bookstore, Ann Arbor,
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