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sample.spring is a poetic meditation on single motherhood and the navigation of visibility, vulnerability, and knowledge. How does being watched impact identity and agency? Award-winning poet Margaret LeMay offers a narrative of precariousness, courage, and love. sample.spring is an assertion of living and having lived: living years, living under different conditions, and love for one's child.

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Here are poems that, in John Cage's fine phrase, ""resist the march of understanding."" You'll find them as fresh tomorrow as they are today. Searching and independent, LeMay investigates herself and finds, beyond heartbreak, the songs it breaks into. -David Hamilton author of Ossabaw: Poems and editor emeritus of The Iowa Review In these spare, acutely observant poems, Margaret LeMay describes the stress of living in a world so endangered it is hard to explain to a child. Her internal dialogue, with its syntax of sadness, is perfectly placed. The way the natural world enters this dialogue is imagistically exact and exacting. The poet's perception expresses an existential truth that both clarifies and transcends narrative. Here beauty enters the dark consciousness as opposition, but its very existence offers a glimmer of salvation. The voice-driven precision of this collection is in pursuit of a complex truth. This is an astonishing debut. -Jan Weissmiller author of In Divided Light, editor of A Poetry Criticism Reader, owner of Prairie Lights Books

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Margaret LeMay's poems have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Better, Brink, the LEON Literary Review, the North American Review, The Cortland Review, The Iowa Review and elsewhere. She teaches poetry and creative writing at Coe College.

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