Today's poem is "Fiddleheads"
from
Little Ice Age
Maureen Seaton's
books of poetry include Furious Cooking, winner of the Iowa Prize for poetry and the
Lambda Book Award; The Sea among the Cupboards, winner of the Capricorn Award and The Society of Midland Authors
Award; and Fear of Subways, winner of the Eighth Mountain Prize. She collaborated with poet Denise Duhamel on the
collections Oyl and Exquisite Politics. Her work has appeared in the anthology The Best American Poetry
1997 and in such magazines as The Atlantic, The Boston Review, New American Writing, The Paris Review, and The
New Republic. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, an Illinois Arts Council grant, and two
Pushcart Prizes, and is currently Artist-in-Residence at Columbia College, Chicago, where she teaches poetry and literary
collage.
About Little Ice Age:
"Maureen Seaton's register is enormous, her verbal daring and wayfaring breathtaking, while the solidity of her skill
whether in renewing received prosody or in formal inventionunderpins a worldview that might otherwise be vertiginously
frightening. Little Ice Age, her fourth book, is a marvel. She writes so much that has not yet been written, that
has needed utterance in poetry or proseabout violence and eroticism, about women's desire, about the intersection
of emotions, mathematics and historyand she writes it indelibly. Read it and weep; read it and wonder; read it and
gasp; read it and open your own notebookbut read it."
"In her striking new collection, Maureen Seaton displays inventiveness and a touching vulnerability. This is poetry with
sweep, quick wit, and a harrowing accuracy of feeling."
"All too often American poets handle English too carefully, as if our language were some kind of sickly child. In such
poetry only the first gear of consciousness gets any real wear. Maureen Seaton's poetry, with its swift zigs and
unpredictable associations, is a sumptuous reminder that language should be throttled beyond safe speeds, that the mind is
not a tricycle but a vehicle designed precisely for mad risks and amazing recoveries."
Marilyn Hacker
Paul Hoover, editor of Postmodern American Poetry:
A Norton Anthology
Tim Seibles, author of Hammerlock.
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