Mary Biddinger's poetry collection Saint Monica reinvents the saint as an everyday girl coming of age in the rust belt Midwest. These poems explore temptation, transgression, and heavenly presences in
The poems of A Sunny Place with Adequate Water are at once pastoral and anti-pastoral, with obsolete and invented coin-operated machinery, surreal small town legends, and hope that the past might help
Mary Biddinger is the author of the poetry collections Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books, 2007) and Saint Monica (Black Lawrence Press, 2011), and co-editor of one volume of criticism: The Monkey and the
Poetry. The time: creeping toward the millennium, yet before Y2K panic inspires everyone to stockpile bottled water and cheap wine. The place: a Midwestern metropolis with echoes of Chicago, Cleveland
Poetry. The poems of THE CZAR by Mary Biddinger and Jay Robinson stand at the intersection of ironic political commentary and hyperbolized body currency. In the world of this collection, THE CZAR is a
Intended for the poetry scholar, this collection of essays analyzes the ever changing idea of poetics in contemporary times. The overarching theme concerns the literal language of contemporary poetry,
