Walking Barefoot in Glassblowers Museum

By Ellyn Maybe

Book Overview

Earnest and confessional in the best sense, Maybe's poems about self and vulnerability reveal her beliefs in family, love, identity, and anti-establishment idealism. Her uncanny ability to pivot at... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916397807
• ISBN13: 9780916397807
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Manic D Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A truly impressive control of language and imagery

Ellyn Maybe's poetry showcases her beliefs in family, love, and identity, along with an anti-establishment idealism. She also presents the reader with a truly impressive control of language and imagery. Desert Grain: It's as if you put 5 pennies in a gumball machine/and out came grace./Sometimes vocabulary does the shimmy with humility./You make parentheses bend over in a choreography worthy/of Merce Cunningham./You've learned the capital city of Psyche is empathy./You are brilliance blinded with candor./You don't act as though you keep a dictionary in your underwear./There's an astronomy to knowing which way/the planetarium's beard points tonight./There's a hymn crossing your cheekbones./There's a sand glass painting with your name on it/and I'd steal a desert grain by grain to give you more time.

A Different Kind of Beauty

This woman's poetry comes from an old soul: sensitive, deep, and quietly angry. The injustice of circumstance, the confusion of unrequited love, the melancholy and longing that go along with everyday living are just a few of the themes explored here... it resonates back and demands being read over and over. Really intense but beautiful...