Displaced Dolls and Oviducts by Marigo J. Stathis

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$17.99

 

Marigo Stathis’ voice, from bleak and beautiful Baltimore, wakes up our “slapped dreams” stranded on the Ladies’ Room door.  There is manna here in her poems for all writers, whether their instruments are pen and paper, copper wires, or gut strings. These compositions in Displaced Dolls and Oviducts conjure their own unique primal rhythm – musicians, take serious note.

–Tori Amos, Singer-songwriter, Composer, Recording Artist

 

Displaced Dolls and Oviducts takes us on a curated tour through the female soul- branded, cracked, intricately folded, defiantly laughing, and secretly linked up to all the other female souls. The impressions remind me of those bygone instamatic snapshots we shove aside in boxes for years, then stare at for hours with wonder. Evocative work from a wise and compassionate writer.

–Ilya Chaiken, American Film Director, Producer, and Screenwriter, Liberty Kid, The Unlovables, and Margarita Happy Hour      

 

Marigo Stathis’ poems bring us a world informed by her formidable intelligence, rich imagination, and deep heart. To read her work is to feel renewed.

–Nikia Leopold, Art Historian, Author, Poet, Healing with Shadows

 

Displaced Dolls and Oviducts invites us into the poignant, often difficult world of girls and women who struggle on the “female warrior’s path to self-worth and discovery.” With lyric intelligence, compassion, and humor, these poems bear witness to the complexities of female experience and celebrate feminine quests and rites.  To read this collection is to enter into poetic rhythms that pulse like “things of beauty, / with contused cores— / injured fragments, / human origami.”  Yet ultimately these poems give hope: “Remember the wings,” the poet admonishes us.

–Marguerite A. Tassi, Professor of Renaissance Literature and Shakespeare,University of Nebraska

 

Marigo Stathis’ writing is richly thematic, raining clemency on the reader with tight-toned music of compassion and solicitude.  There is something more about the splendid collection, splendidly arranged, than can be known: art compresses nature, poetry suffers with the sufferer, or allows the sufferer to suffer with it; perhaps it does so as nothing else can if it doesn’t – and thereby liberates, if just a little.

–Eric Stull, Adjunct Professor of Language, Literature, and Cultural Studies, Bowie State University

 

 

 

 

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Displaced Dolls and Oviducts

by Marigo J. Stathis

Paper
$17.99
979-8-88838-332-2
2023
Displaced Dolls and Oviducts is a heartrending collection of verse that speaks to the modern’s woman’s authentic experience, covering ground from the whimsical and mythically virtuous to the solemn and appallingly foul.  Deftly woven together are fabrics of topical issues related to vanity, mental health, friendship, family, self-discovery, grief, trauma, survival, and acceptance.  Whether from the perspective of a tattoo artist, assault victim, or stranger in a ladies’ room, poems as lyrics of raw truth serve as springboards for connection, celebration, and healing.

Cognitive neuroscientist by day, creative disrupter by night, Marigo Stathis weaponizes the written word to excavate the bones that women, families, and societies often bury.   She thoroughly enjoys writing about the absurdity and irony of life.  Her work has appeared in 34th Parallel, Abbey, The Baltimore City Paper, The Baltimore Sun, Bear Creek Haiku, Facedown, FanStory, The Keeping Room c/o Minerva Rising Press, Lite Journal of Satire and Creativity, The Loch Raven Review, The Sometimes and several anthologies.  Her first poetry chapbook, Displaced Dolls and Oviducts,  will soon be published by The Finishing Line Press.

9 reviews for Displaced Dolls and Oviducts by Marigo J. Stathis

  1. Bob J Murphy –

    I was intrigued by the cover photo and title, “Displaced Dolls and Oviducts.” Inside, I found a substantial collection of poems, written with a perceptive and an unambiguous voice. The author clearly has a vast array of experiences and a masterful and evocative style of writing. I look forward to reading more from Marigo Stathis – bravo, bravisima!

  2. Andrew Karam (verified owner) –

    I don’t often read poetry but the cover intrigued me. And a short time later I realized that the writing had managed to touch virtually every emotion, often within the confines of a single poem. Ms. Stathis writes with confidence and skill and everything is worth reading. It’s a gem.

  3. Lori (verified owner) –

    Witty insightful, and refreshing poetry from a women’s perspective on life. Loved it!

  4. Amy Bartholomee (verified owner) –

    Marigo’s poetry is brilliant, sublime, witty, and oh so relateable! In each piece I felt a familiarity, a touchstone to my own life and experiences. It’s like a box of expensive chocolates, each piece it’s own tiny crafted world.

  5. Scott Lewis (verified owner) –

    Marigo’s writing is always insightful on all these poems, whether they are about silly things or very serious subject matter. Reading these poems makes you laugh, cry and think. Highly recommended!

  6. Nicholas Rossi (verified owner) –

    I enjoyed the unique poetry, I was able to visualize the characters and situations in an abstract way that was so enjoyable. Thank you for this very cool book !

  7. Ellen Loughrey (verified owner) –

    After reading Displaced Dolls and Oviducts, you feel like you’ve watched an Expressionist throw paint at their canvas, where each brushstroke, on its own, is bold and bright. When you step back however, all the lines together, like the brushstrokes, require the reader to look deep within and see the tiny spaces between the brushstrokes, where the real treasure lies. Reward yourself ..check out this chapbook and look forward to the what Marigo Stathis comes up with next.

  8. Susan Watrous (verified owner) –

    A lush and poignant collection, many of which felt deeply personal (to me). I am not normally a poetry reader, but Marigo’s poems are something I could (and will) read and re-read, several times over. Would love to see a few of these set to music!

  9. Laura Schoenfeld (verified owner) –

    Marigo’s poems are infinitely layered…vulnerability and strength…loss and hope….the power of sisterhood…love…and so much more.

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