“[Green’s poetry] attests to a heart that is fearlessly attentive to the world, and exquisitely vulnerable to the great sweep of experience.”
Magpiety
by Melissa Green
Renowned poet Melissa Green returns to the literary stage with her new and selected poems, Magpiety, a profound and evocative exploration of memory, nature, and the nuances of human emotion. Created to captivate both longtime admirers and new readers alike, this collection showcases Green's unparalleled talent for weaving together the spiritual and the earthly with a voice that is both tender and fierce. Green's poems traverse landscapes both external and internal, unveiling a lyrical tapestry of emotion and memory. Her previous works, including the critically acclaimed The Squanicook Eclogues and Color is the Suffering of Light, have established Green as one of the most important voices in contemporary poetry.
Melissa Green
Melissa Green is a poet and author of Magpiety: New & Selected Poems (2015) and Fifty-Two (2007), both from Arrowsmith; The Squanicook Ecologues (1987), which won multiple awards and was hailed by Derek Walcott as “reverential elations [that] uplift and soothe the reader as naturally and cleanly as the morning wind.” Her work has appeared in publications such as Yale Review, Agni, Paris Review, and The New York Review of Books. She has also written Color Is the Suffering of Light (1995) and The Linen Way (2013), two memoirs. She lives in Winthrop, Massachusetts.
