No Known Coordinates
“In her stunning new collection, No Known Coordinates, Maria Terrone explores reversals —‘the world outside this window/like a photo’s negative.’ An urban street becomes a painting. A subway speeds from underground to an elevated track. A girl becomes a woman. A daughter cares for a mother. I love the way these poems bear witness to “the long, slow erasure” of so much in our lives. With vivid, musical language, Terrone takes us to ‘that last waiting room: /land of no known coordinates,’ a place of hope and transformation.” — Nicole Cooley
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At Home in the New World: Essays by Maria Terrone
Opening essay listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2019
“In this thoughtful collection of essays, Maria Terrone lyrically reflects upon the vicissitudes of memory, the quicksand of identity, and the trappings of time. Terrone finds firm footing in the New World, but never steps far from the Old, the Sicilian landscape her family left behind. As Terrone joyfully claims her name and place in the world, the reader embarks on this journey with her, fortified by her hard-earned wisdom, and subsequently feeling a little less alone.” — Maria Laurino, author of The Italian Americans: A History and Were You Always an Italian?
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Eye to Eye
“Maria Terrone’s poems are simultaneously sensuous and spiritual, earthy and intellectual. Her imagination takes fire from contradiction and complexity. One small image—washing a potato or rearranging a lingerie drawer—can open up vistas of private desire or public history. Her poetry explores the contingencies of time and eternity, the mysterious interpenetration of reality and the imagination.” — Dana Gioia
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A Secret Room in Fall
Winner of the Robert McGovern Prize from Ashland Poetry Press
“Whether confronting matters close to home and family, taking in gritty facets of the urban landscape, or bringing to sympathetic light anonymous, mainly female workers in the shadows and giving each her moment of perfectly articulated presence, Maria Terrone’s poems are quietly insistent, recuperative acts of imagination. At times spiced by a wry humor, at times opening to small touches of rapture (‘I rise daily, a miracle’), this Secret Room in Fall suggests a world that is one ‘dense, resplendent cargo,’ of which the poet takes exacting, loving stock. ” — Eamon Grennan
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The Bodies We Were Loaned
“Maria Terrone’s scrupulously crafted, suavely cadenced poems record telling details of the quotidian world with such vividness that after a while we begin to hear “the rush” of the ‘hidden/city’ of the heart, ‘its roar and raging heat, the wild/dark needed to become human.’ The Bodies We Were Loaned is a triumph of meticulous sorrow.” — Sandra Gilbert
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American Gothic, Take 2
“In a voice that beguiles and surprises at every turn, part Marianne Moore, part Emily Dickinson, Maria Terrone enchants us in this new book of poems. The poems take us to Italy, to Montauk, Long Island, and to dream landscapes in which the Beatles throw a party at an ancient temple and Albert Einstein crosses Queens Boulevard. And all the way, through these poems, Maria Terrone is our guide, both wickedly funny and deeply serious. ‘Scatter your sequins,’ she directs us. ‘Then exit,/ tap dancing backwards in code.’ This is a delightful new collection from an important voice in contemporary American poetry.” — Nicole Cooley, author of The Afflicted Girls and Resurrection, winner of the Walt Whitman Award
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Life, Death, & Cash
A witty, satirical take on our personal and societal striving for money from birth to the very end.
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