Bøger af Maureen Seaton

Undersea is Seaton's free-wheeling series of love notes to her transplanted sea-struck self and her salty poems that celebrate her signature wit and joy in that wild state of mind, Florida. These are poems of family, love, and longing for life itself. Undersea is a novella in poems.Told with her singular wit and wisdom honed by salt and sun and brine, the poems are besotted with Florida-its superhero pelicans, the rum-macerated retirees baking in the sun, the soundtrack of air-conditioning, and a lover's night terrors playing in an oceanside efficiency. The speaker in these poems is love-laden but clear-eyed, sure that "there is no line between water and sky," the perfect "stark raving" guide for the reader eager to "...proceed until the edge of the cave / or run out of air, whichever comes first."-Caridad Moro-Gronlier, author of Tortillera Reading Maureen Seaton's poems has always been a kind of astral projection for me. Reading Undersea, I was flung loose from my body so many times, sailing across the Sunshine State on a cloud of sensuous imagery. In Seaton's rendering of this land we love, "Avocados/fall like big and little bombs," "egrets grow fat on curly fries," and "there is no line between water and sky." Come for the "gibbous moonlight," the "canny pelicans," a "speedboat full of gangsters." Stay for the long-won wisdom of the poet herself, who hearkens Blake's imperative to "see the world in a grain of sand"-literally and figuratively, too. Seaton is the glass and the salt, the sling and the shot, "the blue ineffable" that lingers beyond her most luminous feats of language.⠀-Julie Marie Wade, author of Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing and Six: Poems

"Tough, honest, vulnerable. The writing is flamboyant, swaying cheekily between grief and celebration."--Poetry Flash "Seaton tirelessly investigates her role as a white woman in black people's lives, particularly in the life of one black woman, whom she loves. By doing so, she adds to the necessary cargo of politics in poetry."--The Nation

"Sweet World reveals a 21st-century life in the midst of an epidemic. It's not about hating, battling, or even ultimately surviving the ravages of the epidemic as much as it is an homage to a life that continues even as the illness exists within the fabirc of the body--the body, which is not victim, but vehicle for love, light, and growth. It is about a ceasefire with the disease while the soul steps up and takes the lead. Simply put, it's about the challenges and ultimate joys of one woman's life as she recreates herself in a time of breast cancer"--Inside front flap.

A memoir that chronicles the outward antics of a woman on an inward journey to self through the routes of religion, sex, sobriety, and kids.