Marie Uguay
“… gripping and beautifully written. A work of art imbued with desire, loneliness, sadness, suffering but, above all, an ode to life.” — Lettres québécoises
Featured Work
For the Good of All, Do Not Destroy the Birds
A mix of memoir and criticism in a meditative series of essays that chart the “bird soul” that lives in her, as well as avian imagery in poems by Thomas Hardy, Charles Baudelaire, and John Keats.
“Moxley’s prose is always on point, and each chapter contains provocative ideas about poetry and life more broadly: ‘all the time I had longed for solitude, what I really wanted was a little privacy.’ This is a lyrical treat. ”
Jennifer Moxley’s poems combine lyric and innovative looks at daily life while interrogating societal comfort.
Reviewing Clampdown for the Nation, poet Ange Mlinko noted, “Moxley’s ethical anxieties emanate from a central unease, unease at home, and ripple out to touch nation, earth and cosmos. But . . . Moxley does not sublimate her psychology and social perspective.”
