Poems: New & Selected.Poems: New & Selected Marianne Boruch Marianne Boruch is an American poet. She graduated from the MFA Program at University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1979, and after teaching at Tunghai University in Taiwan, and at the University of Maine at Farmington, went on to develop the MFA program in creative writing at Oberlin College Oberlin College, at Oberlin, Ohio; coeducational; opened 1833 as Oberlin Collegiate Institute, became Oberlin College in 1850. It includes a college of arts and sciences and a well-known conservatory of music. Press 10 N. Professor St., Oberlin, OH 44074 0932440975 $29.95 oberlin.edu/ocpress Marianne Boruch, (Professor of Poetry at Purdue University Purdue University (pərdy  `, -d`), main campus at West Lafayette, Ind. ), has included twenty-five new poems New Poems is a collection of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke. He began collecting the poems in 1906, published New Poems in 1907, and in the following year published a second volume of additional poems. in Poems: New & Selected, a 208 page, hardcover anthology of her poems which also includes lavish selections from her previous poetry publications. Boruch's poetry is unpretentious, specific, and at times painfully subtle. Her work seems to translate the untranslatable. A selection is quoted here from The History of The: drawing, of course "I would draw my cat/ but she'd look back. I would/ draw her but she's/ way past sleep and sheds her/ quiet like tickertape/ down the long hallway, talking/ cranky crank·y 1 adj. crank·i·er, crank·i·est 1. Having a bad disposition; peevish. 2. Having eccentric ways; odd. 3. and offkey./ Of course, it's winter. I would draw/ that, but a pencil isn't fierce enough for branches stripped to nothing. To one leaf, which/ is as good as nothing. And nothing -/ that gift needs invisible ink./ I'd draw the way words feel/ in the mouth after too long without/ words, or the way the body rises after/ hours of dream, gravity/ on every bone again, that anchoring/ and ache./ Or I wouldn't. Or I couldn't. / Or I'd bury the treasure/ in the most obvious place (pp.7-8)." Boruch has indeed buried the treasure in the most obvious place; her beautiful poems. |
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