The Dolphin and Other Poems by Marlys Mary Collins

The Dolphin and Other Poems by Marlys Mary Collins

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Marlys Mary Collins tells her truths slant, like her poetic ancestor and guardian angel, Emily Dickinson, whose words she echoes when she describes “a percussion / of wind in the ear, beating to the funeral I heard.” These contemplative poems dwell on nature and solitude, but they exult in her existential predicament as she suffers “the blitzkrieg within” but finds herself “Alive, / alive in the random eternal!” The lively six-part title poem is rich in quotable aphorisms such as “Nature has its own way / of closing the mouths of ghosts” and “Keeping busy, isn’t that the key.” Intense but instilled with humor, her jagged-edged verse, a dialogue between guts and heart as well as an intimate shout-out to the unknown reader, sings with “shy ferocity.”

–John Philip Drury, author of Sea Level Rising

 

 

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The Dolphin and Other Poems

by Marlys Mary Collins

$14.99, paper

978-1-63534-480-6

2018

Marlys Mary Collins was born in 1967, and grew up in suburban Chicago.  She currently lives in Indiana.  Collins has won several awards for her poetry, both as an undergraduate and graduate level student.  She has studied with diverse poets such as the late Lucien Stryk and the late James Reiss, as well as David Schloss.  Collins studied at Miami University in its writing program (MA), Earlham School of Religion (M.Div), and Northern Illinois University (BA).  She teaches writing at Ivy Tech Community College, and is an artist, and short prose writer in addition to being a prolific poet.  She has been published recently in Quarter After Eight, and was a finalist in its contest for a Flash Fiction piece.

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