About Marianne Boruch
Marianne Boruch, born on June 19, 1950, is a poet from the United States whose body of work encompasses not only poetry but also essays that explore the art of poetry in connection with various disciplines such as music, visual arts, ornithology, medicine, and aviation, as well as a memoir detailing her hitchhiking journey in 1971. She published several collections, such as Bestiary Dark (2021), The Anti-Grief (2019), Eventually One Dreams the Real Thing (2016), Cadaver, Speak (2014), and The Book of Hours (2011) published by Copper Canyon Press, as well as Grace, Fallen from (Wesleyan University Press, 2008), and Poems: New & Selected (Oberlin College Press, 2004). Her memoir, The Glimpse Traveler (Indiana University Press, 2011), recounts a hitchhiking journey she undertook in 1971. Additionally, she has written prose collections focused on poetry, including The Little Death of Self (University of Michigan Press, 2017), In the Blue Pharmacy (Trinity University Press, 2005), and Poetry’s Old Air (University of Michigan Press, 1995). Boruch’s lyric poetry frequently extracts an ordinary moment from its context, unraveling threads of thought and routine with a perspective that is both wry and unwavering.Her poems and essays have been published in numerous journals and magazines such as The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, The Georgia Review, The Paris Review, The London Review of Books, The Massachusetts Review, The Hudson Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry London, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Narrative, FIELD, Poetry 180, Poets of the New Century, Poets Reading: The FIELD Symposia, Hammer and Blaze: A Gathering of Poets, American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets, Best American Poetry, among others. She resides in West Lafayette, Indiana with her husband.
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A poem is a box, a thing, to put other things in. For safe keeping.
