Poetry. Maryann Corbett's second full-length collection, CREDO FOR
THE CHECKOUT LINE IN WINTER, draws on profound experience of deep
winter in the lived environment, while keeping alive faith that the
thaw will come and bring with it the bloom of "uncountable rows of
petals." The themes of this finalist for the 2011 Able Muse Book
Award range from the quotidian to the metaphysical. Corbett's keen
eye brings to focus uncommon detail. Her masterful technical
repertoire spans received forms, metrical inventiveness, and free
verse. This is poetry that amply rewards the reader with its
boundless imagination, insight and visionary delight."The crafted
poems in Maryann Corbett's new book are vibrant. She is a newborn
Robert Frost, with a wicked eye for contemporary life. Each poem
surprises. Read her poems and feel the howling snow, the mud, and
the jubilance of the first warm fertile spring days."--Willis
Barnstone"What makes Maryann Corbett such a rare, excellent writer
must be her talent for weaving together various artistic impulses,
so that her poems often sound both traditional and brand new, both
humorous and serious, both worldly-wise and, as John Keats once put
it, 'capable of being in uncertainties.' She] remains a poet of the
first order, and her poems are cause for gratitude, and deep
enjoyment."--Peter Campion, from the Foreword"Corbett is as
comfortable and affecting within the tight confines of the Old
English alliterative meter ('Cold Case') and the Sapphic stanza
('Paint Store') as she is with her supple blank verse and terza
rima. Yet never does her rigorous craft interfere with the
thoughtful, insightful content of these poems. A stunning
collection, from one of America's most gifted contemporary
poets."--Marilyn L. Taylor"These masterful poems announce
themselves as winter pieces, and indeed they are so full of sleet
and snow that readers may wish to dress warmly. But Corbett's
winter, a season when 'dull forms come in the mail' and we eat
'tasteless, stone-hard, gassed tomatoes, ' is always lushly haunted
by the other seasons, the way a house in one of her poems is
fronted by a 'three-season porch.' Corbett is one of the best-kept
secrets of American poetry, and this is one of the best new
collections I've read in years."--Geoffrey Brock
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