Mantic

Poetry. Maureen Alsop follows Apparition Wren with MANTIC, a poetry book that underscores the art of prediction as a means for rectifying disquiet—when one is willing. You will be made to look toward spine-white shores, salt lakes at the empire's boundary. You will hear voices dwelling within the other voice. You will inhabit the shades turning in the grass at the doorway, sun-baked origins, amaurosis before language. You will dream of the past as a form of begging, the future as your face pressed between the landscape's burnished pages. You will not lie still.


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Mantic
Reviewed by Matthew Girolami
This is a book of annotations, a bibliography of divination. Like any bibliography, Maureen Alsop’s Mantic is carefully researched and curated. The collection’s title, Mantic, and periodic poems wi...
Mantic
Reviewed by Grace Cavalieri
How do we understand how poetry crosses all the borders in our mind? Maureen Alsop is a gift to our understanding of how broken thought colorizes another thought – phrases that seemingly have nothi...