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The Woman in the Moon

By: Marjorie Saiser

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2019 Nebraska Book Award The poems in this collection move into the past with her mother and father and also explore the present both with family and culture. The poems range in quick flourishes of conventional subjects rendered in exquisite imagery and observations to everyday occurrences that are suddenly spiked with clear focus and complex movements. Saiser's poems are intricate and graceful in their treatments of numerous subjects, including landscape and evening, grocery stores and roadways, death and birth, love and loss, where sudden realizations seem at once deep and clear and natural. The voice in these poems is fluid and sure.

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1496220706

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I Have Nothing to Say about Fire

By: Marjorie Saiser

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I Have Nothing to Say about Fire

By: Marjorie Saiser

2017 Nebraska Book Award This new collection by Nebraska poet Marjorie Saiser explores the notion of witnessing. Particularly in our technological age, when we have access to international news as it happens, the question comes up: what responsibility do individuals--including those living in relatively quiet middle America--have in regard to world events? The poems in I Have Nothing to Say about Fire reference autobiographical elements: marriage, children, parents, in-laws, etc., but they also reference global tragedy: war, terrorism, genocide. As we experience our own personal losses and triumphs, what relationships should we strive for with family, friends, neighbors, and the strangers around us, particularly as their narratives push them forward into our and/or the public's consciousness? In this book, Marjorie Saiser explores these essential questions and offers potential answers that may help all of us.

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Losing the Ring in the River

By: Marge Saiser

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Losing the Ring in the River

By: Marge Saiser

Spare and incisive, the poems in Losing the Ring in the River deal with three strong women—Clara, Emma, and Liz, women who are tough, often sassy, and have dreams that aren’t quelled by the realities they face. Saiser deftly explores the undercurrents connecting three generations and is at her most powerful when she explores how lives are restricted and sometimes painfully damaged by what people cannot or will not share with one another. Saiser’s poetry is as harsh as it is beautiful; she avoids resolutions and easy endings, focusing instead on the small, hard-won victories that each woman experiences in her life and in her love of those around her.

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0826353215

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Lost in Seward County

By: Marjorie Saiser

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Lost in Seward County

By: Marjorie Saiser

Honor Book Award-Winner for 2001 from The Nebraska Center for the Book, deals with the Marjorie Saiser themes--life, tragedy, healing, acceptance, regeneration.

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0967714958

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The Track the Whales Make

New and Selected Poems

By: Marjorie Saiser

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The Track the Whales Make

New and Selected Poems

By: Marjorie Saiser

Dealing with all the ways love goes right and wrong, Marjorie Saiser’s collection honors the challenges of holding firm to who we really are, as well as our connections to the natural world.

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149622812X

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Fearing Water

By: Marjorie Saiser

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Fearing Water

By: Marjorie Saiser

In Fearing Water, Saiser unflinchingly depicts the evolution of a challenging parent-child relationship; each poem is rich with emotion, observation, and Saiser's steady voice, and serves as a counterpoint to the scene described in the opening poem, 'Holding Out.' Here, the mother's refusal to voice an opinion about whether she'd like to see a movie-or to speak at all-creates a tight whirlpool of longing and dread that threatens to pull the family under. Ultimately, this unspoken tide resolves as the speaker ages and becomes the caretaker, rather than the child, and Saiser's voice moves nimbly from the frustrated anger of youth to acceptance, and even transcendence.

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UW-Madison Libraries Parallel Press

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193479547X

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9781934795477

Losing the Ring in the River

By: Marjorie Saiser

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Losing the Ring in the River

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Spare and incisive, the poems in Losing the Ring in the River deal with three strong women--Clara, Emma, and Liz, women who are tough, often sassy, and have dreams that aren't quelled by the realities they face. Saiser deftly explores the undercurrents connecting three generations and is at her most powerful when she explores how lives are restricted and sometimes painfully damaged by what people cannot or will not share with one another. Saiser's poetry is as harsh as it is beautiful; she avoids resolutions and easy endings, focusing instead on the small, hard-won victories that each woman experiences in her life and in her love of those around her.

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826353207

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I Have Nothing to Say about Fire

By: Marjorie Saiser

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The Woman in the Moon

By: Marjorie Saiser

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The Track the Whales Make

New and Selected Poems

By: Marjorie Saiser

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The Track the Whales Make

New and Selected Poems

By: Marjorie Saiser

Marjorie Saiser’s strong, clear language makes the reader feel at home in her poems. Dealing with all the ways love goes right and wrong, this collection honors the challenges of holding firm to who we really are, as well as our connections to the natural world. The Track the Whales Make includes poems from Saiser’s seven previous books, along with new ones. Her poetry originates from the everyday things we might overlook in the hurry of our daily routines, giving us a chance to stop and appreciate the little things, while wrapped in her comforting diction. Because the poems come from ordinary life, there is humor alongside happiness and sadness, the mixed bag we survive or create, day by day.

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1496228898

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Bones of a Very Fine Hand

By: Marjorie Saiser

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Bones of a Very Fine Hand

By: Marjorie Saiser

Intense poetry about family life, told in a mature voice by a veteran poet of the Great Plains, Marjorie Saiser. Poet Judith Minty writes: "I am deeply moved by these extraordinary poems about giving birth and dying, about what it means to live life with dignity. They grow out of the heart of America, out of the landscape of small town and prairie, out of the hearts of people who look you straight in the eye. You dare not turn away, for the lessons to learn here are compelling. Marjorie Saiser is not only a wise and compassionate writer--her poems shine with details of the things of this earth, they pulse with the earth's very rhythms".

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0739202847

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9780739202845

Beside You at the Stoplight

By: Marjorie Saiser

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Beside You at the Stoplight

By: Marjorie Saiser

Marge Saiser's poetry is wise and generous and altogether genuine. No poet in this country is better at writing about love and, in a sense, all of her poems are in some way about love. -Ted Kooser, United States Poet Laureate, 2004-2

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Losing the Ring in the River

By: Marjorie Saiser

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University of New Mexico Press

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Bones of a Very Fine Hand

By: Marjorie Saiser

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Inspirational Writings of Marjorie Holmes

By: Marjorie Holmes

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Inspirational Writings of Marjorie Holmes

By: Marjorie Holmes

This collection includes Love and Laughter, Lord, Let Me Love, and To Help You Through the Hurting. Here in one collection for the first time are three bestselling works from one of America's favorite inspirational writers. Deluxe gold-stamped leatherette binding with gold edges and color-coordinated endpapers.

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Arrowood Press

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088486037X

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The Journey Recalled

A Memoir of Marjorie Frances Hill

By: Marjorie Hill,Thel Spencer

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The Journey Recalled

A Memoir of Marjorie Frances Hill

By: Marjorie Hill,Thel Spencer

The artist recalls her life in Omaha, NE, scholarship to Kansas City Art Institute, and working as a Hallmark girl before World War II. Illustrations of forty of Hill's watercolor paintings are included.

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0971314101

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9780971314108

Becoming: What Makes a Woman

By: Jill McCabe Johnson,Ellen Bass,Kurth Lita,Manwaring Marjorie

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Becoming: What Makes a Woman

By: Jill McCabe Johnson,Ellen Bass,Kurth Lita,Manwaring Marjorie

A must-read anthology of life-altering personal experiences. The events a in a woman's life etch indelible changes. These personal essays and poems mark significant life events from early formative experiences to vibrant later years. Read stories from a war correspondent, the first female on an all-male college swim team, a woman visiting her ex-husband at his new commune. Strong women caring for parents and children, fighting oppression, facing arranged marriages, bridging cultural and gender differences, and defending the weak. Hear from scientists, journalists, political protesters, sisters, grandmothers, mothers, and daughters. Girls donning last-minute Halloween costumes, struggling during their first marching band practice, and figuring out how best to hang from the monkey bars. Women triumphing over insecurity, illness, addiction, and loss. Exquisitely written stories of ordinary and extraordinary experiences, from harrowing to hilarious, the pivotal life moments that make us who we are today. "Becoming: What Makes a Woman brings to life those remarkable moments, large and small, that transform an individual, steering us toward the lives we were meant to lead. An astonishing array of gifted writers explore intimacy, doubt, love, joy, and sorrow to form this exhilarating anthology. A rich and wonderful read." Dinty W. Moore, author of The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life "Beautifully conceived and organized, this collection unfolds much the way a woman's life reveals itself: slowly, gently, and sometimes painfully nudging our way into wisdom." Brenda Miller, author of Season of the Body and Listening Against the Stone An excellent guide for young women in their own process of "becoming." A meaningful thank you for the visionary women who have led the way. Edited by Jill McCabe Johnson, and with a forward by Janice Deeds, Ph.D., of the University of Nebraska Gender Programs. The diverse collection includes essays and poems by Ellen Bass, Peggy Shumaker, Lia Purpura, Dinah Lenney, Judith Slater, Marjorie Saiser, Dilruba Ahmed, Julie L. Moore, Maria Terrone, and more.

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0615587100

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