Maryann Corbett’s moment full-length assortment, Credo for the Checkout Line in iciness, attracts on profound event of deep iciness within the lived surroundings, whereas retaining alive religion that the thaw will come and produce with it the bloom of “uncountable rows of petals.” the topics of this finalist for the 2011 capable Muse ebook Award diversity from the quotidian to the metaphysical. Corbett’s willing eye brings to concentration unusual aspect. Her masterful technical repertoire spans acquired varieties, metrical inventiveness, and loose verse. this can be poetry that amply rewards the reader with its boundless mind's eye, perception and visionary delight.

PRAISE FOR CREDO FOR THE CHECKOUT LINE IN WINTER:

The crafted poems in Maryann Corbett’s new ebook are brilliant. She is a infant Robert Frost, with a depraved eye for modern lifestyles. each one poem surprises. learn her poems and suppose the howling snow, the dust, and the jubilance of the 1st hot fertile spring days.
—Willis Barnstone

What makes Maryann Corbett this type of infrequent, first-class author has to be her expertise for weaving jointly numerous creative impulses, in order that her poems usually sound either conventional and fresh, either funny and severe, either worldly-wise and, as John Keats as soon as placed it, “capable of being in uncertainties.” [She] continues to be a poet of the 1st order, and her poems are reason for gratitude, and deep enjoyment.
—Peter Campion (from the foreword)

Corbett is as cozy and affecting in the tight confines of the outdated English alliterative meter (“Cold Case”) and the Sapphic stanza (“Paint Store”) as she is along with her supple clean verse and terza rima. but by no means does her rigorous craft intervene with the considerate, insightful content material of those poems. a beautiful assortment, from one in every of America’s such a lot talented modern poets.
—Marilyn L. Taylor

Do no longer push aside this assortment as “domestic poetry,” “women’s verse.” even though grounded in seasonal rhythms and general settings, it really is as lively, as reflective, as very important as any man’s. Sharply visible, skillfully and cleverly crafted, her poems draw out essences, “concentrated” and persisting. “Beauty alterations us,/ calling up ask yourself from our inner most selves/ to its correct place.”
—Catharine Savage Brosman

These masterful poems announce themselves as iciness items, and certainly they're so choked with sleet and snow that readers may need to decorate warmly. yet Corbett’s wintry weather, a season whilst “dull varieties are available the mail” and we devour “tasteless, stone-hard, gassed tomatoes,” is usually lushly haunted by means of the opposite seasons, the way in which a home in a single of her poems is fronted through a “three-season porch.” Corbett is among the best-kept secrets and techniques of yankee poetry, and this is often the most effective new collections I’ve learn in years.
—Geoffrey Brock

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Maryann Corbett grew up in McLean, Virginia. She holds a doctorate in English from the collage of Minnesota and is the writer of Breath regulate (David Robert Books, 2012), and the chapbooks Gardening in a Time of warfare (Pudding residence) and Dissonance (Scienter Press). Her poems, essays, and translations have seemed in River Styx, Atlanta overview, Rattle e-issues, The Evansville evaluation, degree, Literary mind's eye, The darkish Horse, Mezzo Cammin, Linebreak, Subtropics, and others. Her poems have have gained the Lyric Memorial Award and the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. She lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and works for the Minnesota Legislature. She is married to John Corbett, a instructor of information and arithmetic, they usually have grown children.