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Maureen Tolman Flannery

A Fine Line, 2004

Poems by Maureen Tolman Flannery
64 pp., 5 1/2" x 8 1/2",
Perfect-bound paperback
Book Design: Wayne Allen Jones
Cover Block Print: Cathy Mooses
ISBN: 1-933126-05-1
 

• Author Profile - click to expand

  • Maureen Tolman Flannery has grounded her poetics in the
    various landscapes of her life: Wyoming, where she grew up
    the daughter of a rancher, Mexico, where she has become
    infatuated with the rich complexity of Mexican culture and
    geography, and Chicago, where she has settled to raise her
    family of three sons and a daughter. These offspring, along
    with her husband of thirty-five years, provide much grist for
    her poetical mill.
    
    She received a Literary Award from the Illinois Arts Council
    and has been twice nominated for a Pushchart Prize. She is
    a two-time grand prize winner of Sparrowgrass' Award of
    Poetic Excellence, and has won first place in the WyoPoets
    contest, the Telluride Magazine poetry contest, and the New
    River Poets contest.
    
    Her three other volumes of poetry are:
    
        Ancestors in the Landscape: Poems of a Rancher's Daughter
                (John Gordon Burke, 2004)
        Secret of the Rising Up: Poems of Mexico
                (John Gordon Burke, 2004)
        Remembered into Life
                (New Song Press, 2001)
    
    She edited the critically acclaimed Knowing Stones: Poems of Exotic Places,
    an anthology of travel poetry (John Gordon Burke, 2003).
    Her chapbook, Conversations for the Road, is available online
    at tmpoetry.com.
    
    Her poems have appeared in one hundred plus reviews,
    magazines, and journals, and she has placed poems in
    forty anthologies. Her work has been selected for
    "Dial-A-Poem, Chicago," and has been heard on WBEZ's
    "Metropolis." She is also secretary/treasurer of Poet's Club
    of Chicago.
    
    Flannery received her BA and MA degrees in English Literature
    from Creighton University, and has taught English as a Foreign
    Language for thirty years.
     

Contents - Click Table of Contents to see poem titles

• Table of Contents
  • Pearls
  • On Edge
  • Two Step
  • In the Timber
  • The Sound of Hollow
  • Firsts
  • Lure of the Unconceived
  • Promise
  • Well
  • Midnight Wandering
  • Joint Garden
  • Abrasive Love
  • First Stirrings
  • On Watching the Unborn Baby Move
  • Pregnance – fifth Month
  • Eighth Month Big Top
  • Pyramid
  • To the Father-to-Be
  • Involuntary Craftsmanship
  • Bond
  • Go Gently
  • Christening
  • Kaleidoscope
  • Guard Duty
  • Shape-Shifter
  • Collector
  • Sleep
  • Bumps
  • To a Man of Few Words
  • Hot Tar
  • The Wait
  • Conversation
  • Initials Carved
  • Renewal
  • Back Tickling
  • Five-Year old
  • Kinesiology
  • In Bad Light
  • Quickening
  • Sand Man
  • In Passing
  • Vanishing Newborn
  • Fruit
  • Nursing
  • Craving Peaches
  • Comfortable Accommodations
  • Feeding
  • Canned Peaches
  • Mothered on Poems
  • Supply Man
  • Huevos Revueltos
  • Workshop
  • Essence
  • Summer on the Farm
  • Farm Nights
  • First Steps
  • Disrobing
  • Dress-Up
  • Ancestry
  • Half-Baked
  • After the Last Page

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