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In this book-length poem, Alsop writes beautifully distilled stanzas that intertwine passion and grief for the worlds within our world that are disappearing. Amplifying the book's graceful four-line stanzas are Alsop's drawings-moon phases, concentric circles, and astronomical diagrams-that deepen the collection's atmosphere of dream and meditation. For all its attention to brokenness and counterpoint, Mercury Hour ultimately affirms poetry's power-through dream, trance, and mystical vision-to restore what has vanished.

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""There is a spirit [in these poems],"" writes poet Ruben Quesada, ""that is resilient and thriving. Mercury Hour evokes a central question: Can loss be a guiding light across time, space, and the fractured landscape of the heart?"" ""These poems,"" adds Eartha Davis, ""are an internal rain rivering toward light, then more light, then even more. Yet they are filled by the silence that comes when there is internal singing.""

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Maureen Alsop, Ph.D. is the author of Mercury Hour; Arbor Vitae; Tender to Empress; Pyre; Later, Knives & Trees; Mirror Inside Coffin; Mantic; Apparition Wren (also a Spanish Edition, Reyezuelo Aparición, translated by Mario Domínguez Parra); and several chapbooks including Sweetwater Ardour; Nightingale Habit; and the dream and the dream you spoke.She is the winner of the Tony Quagliano International Poetry Award through the Hawaii Council for the Humanities, Harpur Palate's Milton Kessler Memorial Prize for Poetry, The Bitter Oleander's Frances Locke Memorial Poetry Award, among others. Her poetry was shortlisted for Montreal International Poetry Prize, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize on numerous occasions.Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including The Laurel Review, AGNI, Blackbird, Tampa Review, DIAGRAM, Action Yes, Drunken Boat, Memorious, The Kenyon Review, Typo Magazine and featured on Verse Daily.Her translations of the poetry of Juana de Ibarbourou (Uruguay, 1892-1979) are found through Poetry Salzburg Review.She teaches online with the Poetry Barn. She is a Book Review Editor and Associate Poetry Editor at Poemeleon. She holds a MFA from Vermont College.

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