Issue 85 |
Fall 2001

Little Ice Age by Maureen Seaton

Marilyn Hacker recommends
Little Ice Age, poems by Maureen Seaton: "There are very few poets of whom I might say, 'It is inexplicable why this work is not better known, celebrated for all it's worth.' Maureen Seaton is a poet like that. Her register is enormous, her verbal daring and wayfaring breathtaking; while the solidity of her skill-whether in renewing received prosody or in formal invention-underpins a worldview that might otherwise be vertiginously frightening.
Little Ice Age, her fourth book, is a marvel. She writes so much that has not been written, that has needed utterance-in poetry
or prose: about violence and eroticism, about women's desire, about the intersection of emotions, mathematics, and history, and she writes it indelibly." (Invisible Cities)